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To: Mr.Atos
I think one of the irreducible properties of a core issue is that everyone decides for himself what is or is not a core issue. A large number of intrinsically conservative scientists (and most scientists, in my experience, are very conservative in their overall philosophy) who've told me they could never vote Republican because of the antiscientific influence of fundamentalists. This issue is losing us votes; and it's losing the last part of the Academy that the Right has any influence over.

Unlike you, I am not convinced civilization is compatible with all strains of Christianity. Opposition to evolution is based on unreason; and no civilization can exist without reason.

86 posted on 07/25/2003 1:42:14 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
I am not convinced civilization is compatible with all strains of Christianity.

And yet, if you are indeed a scientist, then you must also rely to some degree of emperical evidence. Historically speaking, that would suggest (at least form a cultural anthropological standpoint) that Christianity had a significant influence and supremacy of Western Civilization. My background (as far as science) goes is Archaeology, but I am sure there are theologians out there who could help make this point with a significant degree of studied and informed civility... the point being that philosophical notions that contributed to defining the primacy of individual existences as ultimately manifested in the Constitution (The pinnacle document in human civilization) were not possible in absense of Christian tradition. So I consider your conclusion in that reagrd to be flawed. Irregardless, the legitimacy of your point does not change the fact that your stance does not negate my significance in regards to my rights as identified by the Constitution and recognized by this government.

94 posted on 07/25/2003 1:54:38 PM PDT by Mr.Atos
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