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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (25934)	11/14/1998 8:18:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

Bob, The arsenic in the water is naturally occurring. Despite what many believe, all that is natural is not good. To discuss this catastrophe in terms of "karma" or other spiritual concepts is deceptive. This is the result of a single human error. Some bureaucrat in a multimillion dollar foreign aid project slipped up and forgot the basic requirement that the source for any large scale water project has to be thoroughly tested. Perhaps he thought that since the water was to be consumed by brown people, it didn't matter. Success confers power. Power confers responsibility. When power is used irresponsibly - even if the nominal goal is laudable - a price is payed, rarely by those who were irresponsible. I will leave it to others to decide if these empirical observations can be attributed to the actions of an abstract principle. Steve

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (25934)	11/15/1998 2:01:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I asked you whether you believe your god is omnipotent and omniscient, and you rambled on about how Atheism was responsible for the Chernobyl accident. I have read much about Steven Hawkings, and almost all of what you said about him is wrong. Hawkings has stated that he is an Atheist, that there is a probability that the Universe came into existence on it's own, and that there are probably parallel universes. I am quite certain that he has never said that evolution is mathematically impossible. Please show me his quotes to support your claims. Where do you get your information from, Rush? If so, that would explain why it is wrong. It can easily be demonstrated that bacteria mutate to their benefit. Resistance to antibiotics is one obvious example. Nature has countless bacteria subject to different environments and they mutate at a much higher rate. Larger organisms take longer to mutate simply because of their longer reproductive cycle. Once again you are way off the mark. Del