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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (983108)	11/21/2016 2:07:31 PM
From: POKERSAM	Respond to of 1578019

I doubt it will make a dent with koan. Thank you for the article.

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (983108)	11/21/2016 3:05:23 PM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Recommended By ACAN Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578019

I didn't have time to really digest that whole article, but I could see what he was getting at and he has a point. I am often very critical of many of the liberals dogma, for example, their categorical opposition to mining, without realizing that we have to do it somewhere, but the most important thing is it to be doing it in an environmentally sensitive manner. I think I'm just not making my point clear about science. Science and written language, is what allowed us to pinpoint all of the things necessary for having modern civilization. That is the most important point I wish to make about science. Science taught us what is real and what is not real. Knowing what is real and what is not real is very important. Some believe that the decline of Rome was greatly exacerbated by the use of lead pipes which we know causes dementia and insanity. Or when science discovered the importance of sanitation in preventing sickness. Remember, the church did not allow people to open up the human body to see how it operated which fostered centuries of bad medicine because the doctors were not allowed to figure out how the human body actually was constructed and function.ed And it was dialogue, and social science they gave us democracy and ethics and the rule of law. Think about what a modern society looks like in relation to what it looked like 1,000 years ago. Life until modern times was brutish and short as one person once said and full of misery for most people. Most people died of infections. If you got a compound fracture they had to cut your arm off. In the last hundred years our lifespan has pretty much doubled due to antibiotics and modern medicine. Those are all the result of science. That article makes a point about the problems within the scientific community and I don't disagree with most of it. But we mustn't lose track of the really important thing which is the contribution that science has made to modern comfort. Today if you have a serious medical problem, you don't have to endure great pain, they can put you to sleep or give you Novocain and usually fix it. Life is much much better today because of science. And the scientists are the most highly trained humans on the planet with regard to facts and logic. So it is germane to understanding the difference between the Democratic and Republican party, if only 6% of them are Republican and over 80% of them lean Democratic. It is important to question why that is