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To: TigerPaw who wrote (7144)	4/5/2002 3:56:36 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

Lots of ideas in Western Civilization never would have been, but for the East. Gun powder, a defining feature of Western Civilization, came from the East. Some sources even suggest Jesus got his ideas from the East. I don't see the need to say where things came from though- except out of curiosity and the fun of tracing connections- a la James Burke. I think we can say our society has a lot of good ideas, lets find out what those are, and keep them- regardless of where they came from. Other societies have good ideas too- lets steal those. And all societies (ours included) carry around some bad baggage- let's dump that off.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (7144)	4/5/2002 4:20:06 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Actually, the analogy is cautioning against throwing out the protocols, techniques, and amassed data and theory of science, just because science is progressive, and subject to refinement and revision.