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To: bentway who wrote (252550)	12/28/2007 2:37:49 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 281500

When I was a newborn infant, I reached out my hand and grasped another’s finger. I grew and grasped at objects of play and learned to gain control over them. I learned I could control the flow of objects in my environment and of ideas in my mind and continued until I gained understanding of how things worked in the world around me. I had pets and ponds in my yard to manage and discovered how delicate natural biomes are. They operate mostly on instinct, unlike me who has few and among them this one, to take control and cause goodness around me or allow the influence of corruption to bring ruin upon all that I see. "...NEVER voted for Bush." I've never voted for Bush either but ... Which politician would you propose I entrust with this responsibility? Seems like putting this in the hands of politicians is like pulling someone's finger ... but adults don't get the same effect infants get.

To: bentway who wrote (252550)	12/28/2007 2:54:02 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"I'm an engineer too smartypants! " Sure coulda fooled me. Most engineers understand numbers and have good perspective on reality. What diploma mill did you go to? Lord Kelvin expressed this issue well: "I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of Science, whatever the matter may be."