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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (120)	8/12/1998 2:06:00 AM
From: Tony	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 242

I'm not sure if I understood you to mean your leaving the thread. If so, I'm sorry, it's been interesting. If not: Do I understand you to mean that your solution would be to eliminate theology/religion? (ignore the implementation problems) Personally, I'm not convinced that would help all that much. Among other things, if they're right then everybody loses, as alleged theological proofs can apparently not be mathmatically derived or experimentally verified. Problem is, I can't think of any sane way to screen screwball religious thoughts from rational ones. If I say that such and such a structure has such and such a strength, it can be measured and verified. Then maybe the structure can be used for something. I can't think of a way to do that for religion, so by and large I ignore it. But that doesn't really work, does it? Whoever said "If I discard less than 50% of my data to make it fit a theory, the theory is proved," was not really acting as a scientist... -Tony

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (120)	8/12/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 242

You've got it all wrong. Scientists are some of the most arrogant lot. These are the new "theologians." How dare anybody question them, even in matters which they have no expertise, i.e. our origins or our purposes? Now, somehow in you beautiful little work of tolerance you and the media have none for those who beleive in Jesus Christ and simply want to use their votes in the Democratic process. You can find some self-righteousness if you look in churches, to be sure, but if you want to hit the motherlode -- look to the media!