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To: cosmicforce who wrote (94085)	1/19/2005 11:41:10 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) of 108807

I thought it implicit in your previous post: " I think its wiring....I don't think we have any more or less choice about that than our gender or artistic ability." There's the "born" part. "The questioners (unwilling to stick it out in the faith game) break new ground and the non-questioners plow the same field (there is the "elite" vs "unquestionging herd" aspect). "benefits of human cultural evolution" I'd use the phrase human cultural advance. When I think of those who have aided that, I think of one who just had a birthday and note he was - how about that? - a clergyman. And I think also of this country's founding fathers - some of whom were deists, of course - but none of whom as far as I know were bereft of any faith at all. Then there was Lincoln, rumored to have been an unbeliever among many other things, but whose public speeches - just heard his second inauguaral address read tonight - certainly sounded like a believer's. Perhaps there have been some great agnostics who have pulled human culture forward in a postive direction, just can't think of any right now.

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