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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (14748)	1/30/2003 5:10:43 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Re baby killing in Kuwait: I think you are referring to the statements in the UN about Iraqi soldiers throwing premature babies on the floor to steal their incubators. It was later PROVEN to be a lie. (1) The teary-eyed girl who swore she saw 40 babies wriggling to their death on the floor turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, not a hospital worker. (2) The doctor who swore he personally buried 15 babies turned out to be a dentist, not a doctor working with premature babies (3) A group of reporters went to Kuwait and interviewed doctors in every single hospital to find out which hospital this event occured in (I saw the documentary) and they all said they heard it but it happened in "another hospital". So it was proven to be a lie.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (14748)	2/3/2003 12:56:52 AM
From: Scott Bergquist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

No one can "prove" while standing in their back yard that the Earth goes around the Sun. From all appearances, the sun _is_ circling the Earth. Yet we accept a Sun-centered solar system as fact because of the work done by others. And that work has to be independently corroborated; repeatable in the absence of any connection to the first work. PS: Passages in the Bible used to claim that the Earth was the center of the universe, and every celestial body was encased in a crystal glass bulb. That is why Galileo's observance of moons orbiting around Jupiter was so "ghastly". What about the "crystal"???!!! (source: Stephen J Gould)