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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:59:42 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- References: <1992Nov16.072757.29064@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov17.002157.9642@reks.uia.ac.be> <1992Nov17.032437.2544@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov17.032437.2544@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- > Madness is also in the eye of the beholder.
-
- A disingenuous and logically bereft statement, at best.
-
- >One civilization spent
- > at least 40 years piling huge blocks atop one another in the largest
- > manmade rockpile on the planet simply to produce a place to bury a
- > king.
-
- 20 years, 2 million blocks, and it was a public-works
- project that provided a damping of economic variation
- during the periodic lulls in the continuous rotation of
- the dozens of crops grown in the Nile floodplains.
-
- Imhotep invented workfare.
-
- And Manhattan is a larger manmade rockpile; it
- continues to expand upward.
-
- >A group of tribes spent untold millenia guarding a small box of
- > religious artifacts, often at the expense of large numbers of their
- > people, their homes and their lives. This is sheer madness, but
- > these efforts provided cohesion in their societies. Also, if they
- > hadn't done such stuff, how much would we know of them?
-
- How much do we care? They sound insane, and probably
- were. I expect we'd infer a great deal more than the
- truths behind the contents of their little box of relics.
-
- This isn't much different from the mainstream religions,
- which continue to batter at freedom in order to preserve
- their little boxes of social artifacts.
-
- > It is inappropriate to judge theology by the rules of science.
-
- Only to a twit.
-
- --Blair
- "To wit."
-