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To: D. Long who wrote (1739)	12/21/2005 1:54:25 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 2253

Good statement and correct, I'd say. Mumbo-jumbo, Big God Of The Congo, may be in charge, but you will not settle the question in a laboratory or an equation.

To: D. Long who wrote (1739)	12/21/2005 2:07:59 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2253

I quoted Margulis correctly. And she meant exactly what she said. In her view and many other scientists, the scientific world view does require a disbelief in anything supernatural.

To: D. Long who wrote (1739)	12/21/2005 2:12:59 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2253

I went through each of those quotes and found that most included very definite "opinion" words and phrases, such as "it seems", "there has to be", "it is my view", "the thought insistently arises", "it's very tempting to make a leap" I've been reading a small book by George Orwell,Down and Out in Paris and London. He was very young when he wrote it, and it is a great read with wonderfully descriptive stories of the characters he met while he was living in poverty. But interspersed in it you will find some amazing statements. He was anti-Semitic, he thought blacks were a totally different species, and some of his thinking, while well-presented, is just immature. Our conclusions about the world we live in depend on our experiences, but if we aren't relying on facts, they can be wildly at odds with those of others. COnfusing the wonderful writer and observer of human nature with someone whose opinion of Jews is somehow authoritarian would be unwise. The same for the scientists who have taken the leap of faith, for whatever reasons.