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- From: pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN)
- Subject: Re: ecology & Christianity
- Message-ID: <C1BzHK.Mo6@ecf.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
- References: <21JAN199310400459@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> <C17zJ0.53J@ecf.toronto.edu> <C19Fuw.D48@math.uwaterloo.ca>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:48:55 GMT
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- In article <C19Fuw.D48@math.uwaterloo.ca> shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca (Jeffrey Shallit) writes:
- >In article <C17zJ0.53J@ecf.toronto.edu> pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
- >>But the idea of dominion has been abused
- >>by many Christians, and I think the author of the original quote believed that
- >>the best way to remedy this situation would be to get rid of the idea being
- >>abused. Not that I necessarily agree with her.
- >
- >Try "him". Lynn White, Jr. is a man.
- >
- >Jeff Shallit
- >
- >"[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until
- >we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for
- >existence save to serve man."
- >
- > -- Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our
- > Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967),
- > pp. 1203-1207.
- >
- Sorry. "Lynn" is an ambigious name, as far as sex goes.
- But I was right, eh?
- >
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