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To: average joe who wrote (77956)	10/21/2003 11:06:18 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

AJ, here is an article by Hitchens on your favorite saint to be, if you're interested. Message 19419635

To: average joe who wrote (77956)	10/21/2003 11:38:21 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"So if a human has absolute certainty about anything that person is no longer human?" I was contrasting the humanistic and the scientific as they co-exist in man. A life resting on mere facts without the stimulation of those poetic faculties of myth and wonder, would be a life both austere and devoid of joy. The need is to balance--not to throw away the fable, but to recognize what is and is not fable; to proclaim all ones "certainties" as conditional and progressive. Apart from all that, you have inaccurately paraphrased the quote you were responding to. If you had understood the gist you would have said: "So if a human has absolute certainty about EVERYTHING that person is no longer living to her full human capacity." Einstein has shown us that all certainty in physics is relative. So my personal offerings of fact always include this presumption.