RE: Fish (was Re: Marks)

From: Jim Melton (jim.melton@acm.org)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2007 - 12:22:30 CDT

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    Now *there* is a provocative statement!

    I think that would come as a huge shock to scientists of other
    faiths, but, hey, I've been wrong before.

    J

    At 9/29/2007 05:08 AM, Peter Constable wrote:
    >Also widely off-topic...
    >
    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
    >On Behalf Of William J Poser
    >
    > > It seems to me that "scientific orientation" describes rather well
    > > the materialist, rationalist view that leads one to be dismissive
    > > of revealed religion, especially in its fundamentalist forms.
    >
    >This is interesting, particularly given that rationalism and
    >scientific endeavour as they widely exist in the world today are
    >probably more dependent on Christian theology than any other influence.
    >
    >
    >
    >Peter

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