DAVID, 0n 1 March 1999 you posted at Delphi,

Jacob, in your essay "Science, Philosophy and God" you wrote:

1. Medicine is becoming more a 'science' and less of an 'art', as biology and technology advance. Notice however that Medicine is not a Science. Sciences are the study of Natural phenomena. Medicine is a composite of many Sciences, particularly Biology and a lot of technological applications.

I agree with your statement that medicine is becoming more of a science and less of an art. We can corroborate this very easily in our daily practice, using technologically advanced, precise, new diagnostic procedures.
Medicine to a certain point has been 'dehumanized.' Technology will replace the physician --as we know him to-day-- by robots. What is not clear to me is the concept you stated:

Notice, however, that Medicine is not a Science, because Science is the study of Natural phenomena.

Is there a contradiction? At the beginning of your analysis you said that medicine is becoming more of a science and less of an art. May be I do not follow your thinking, and you are really right. May be what you wanted to say is that Medicine is in reality a Super Science?

David, I'm not sure that you are quoting me verbatim, since you did not copy-paste the paragraph, as Interdialog protocol demands. No matter: I'll clarify, as follows.
a) Natural Sciences deal with what is present in the world, which is known as 'Nature,' and which I define as everything created spontaneously by the Physical Laws (PhL), which themselves appeared for the first time at the moment of the BB. I postulate that the BB obeyed physical laws that lasted for a few seconds, being superseded by Laws that applied to initial cosmological phenomena. Those primary laws evolved to apply to the new physical realities. Thus, once life developed, biochemical laws were in evidence. However, the seed of Biology was already present at the BB: EVERYTHING, by Logical dictate, is a 'recursive subject' of the BB laws (i.e., of the PhL, better understood as the 'post-BB Laws.'

Man is the vertex of the evolutionary 'creations' of the PhL; but it ('he/she') embodies an EMERGENT quality: Man creates! Thus, the Artificial Sciences appeared, the better known being Computer Science. Are computers part of Nature? Nature is everything, alive or not, that can be detected by the senses, naked or vested with instruments. As instruments develop, so realities that are not well defined today will be clearly grasped as being 'natural.'

When the discoveries of Natural Sciences are exploited for a given 'benefit' an Applied Science begins to take shape. Exploiting Biology --a Natural Science-- and Pharmacology --which I'd call an Artificial Science-- for the benefit of Man, the Applied Science called Medicine was structured.
The vagaries of impotent 'medications,' psychosomatic phenomena, and idiosyncratic --genetically determined-- reactions to remedies, forced Medicine to be more of an art (determined by the empirical nature of physician's knowledge).
The more technology is utilized for medical purposes, the more exact Medicine becomes: more of a scientific endeavor and therefore less of an art: less empirical, more scientific (based on experimentally gathered knowledge). More 'robotic,' less 'human.' The doctor becomes more adept at effective and efficient treatments.
I'd say that I have the 'impression' --without explaining on what grounds-- that 'psychoneuroses' are very much facilitated by deficient secretion of the neurotransmitters norepinephrine and serotonin. Lack of them result in a situation where the respective neurons cannot process emotionally traumatic input. The traumatic experience is therefore, repressed, as a last-resort self-defense of the Ego, which I would call the Self, that is, Self-Defense. If so, psychoanalysts should use pharmaceuticals, too: Psychoanalysis then becomes more of a science, therefore, less of an art.

Another 'impression': Post Traumatic Syndrome (PTS), whether the trauma is physical or emotional, will be worse in neurotransmitter-deficient individuals. All people suffering intense traumas should be given steroids (cortisone-derived pharmaceuticals) to prevent the anatomical damage of hypothalamic areas, which make the PTS irreversible.

Answering Daphna's question ("SEARCHING FOR GOD"): "Is there God..a God.. one God?" you replied:

There is no evidence for the existence of a Supreme Being, a Creator of everything. Yet it is practically inconceivable that the Universe was self- created.

Jacob, about the existence of God, as you know, all the philosophers, since humanity exists, have asked themselves the same question and have tried to demonstrate His existence or nonexistence. The truth is that nobody has a definitive answer to what or who produced the Big Bang that created the universe.

Certainly! As I wrote, this conundrum is the unsurpassed whodunit... Many thinkers consider that if there is a He, the task was either badly performed, or else we don't know how to interpret it. This vacuum resulted in the evolution of Philosophy, its vertex being the D-SP... Please see "GOD'S UNFINISHED TASK."