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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (7540)	6/13/2000 4:24:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9127

Celery may have played a part in this evolution - lileks.com Just musing about Eli n - assuming [and i think it likely] that in around eight or ten years he is going to have free access to the net, he is likely to explore the various Eli n threads ... there are many, but he stands a good chance of finding this one imho ..... so, what will he think of us ... will he even make it this far down the thread ... i wonder.

To: average joe who wrote (7540)	6/13/2000 5:08:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

I think maybe we're having definition problems. To me, divine is either being godlike, or being something that comes from a god. Using the second meaning, both man and monkeys ARE divine. I think your objection has less to do with connecting man to monkey and making monkeys divine than it does with the unattractive notion that we are less divine by the connection, an understandable objection. So many of the people we consider today to be geniuses weren't appreciated at all in their own times. I'm not an artist, but I do know that it's certainly true of composers, many of whom died penniless and unacknowledged. We may be posting here with the Leonardo of today, but he may not be recognized as such for years. People CAN produce paintings like that, but they would be only imitations. I don't know that too many of us can quickly recognize the genius of our own times. Are you saying that it is the absence of faith that has destroyed our ability to produce genius?

To: average joe who wrote (7540)	6/13/2000 6:23:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

Where is the Leonardo da Vinci of today? The great geniuses of today are busy producing useful items. We accept a laptop computer, a mobile phone, a jet aircraft, a space shuttle, a Hubble telescope, an antibiotic tablet as day to day items, because to us they are, but how much genius went into each of those creations. I don't think the divinity of monkeys has helped our crisis in faith. Our crisis in faith developed from the observation that faith and prayer did nothing to improve the human condition, while science and technlology did a great deal. People tend to go with what works. An important evolutionary mechanism.