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To: Tax-chick

No, it does not. What scientists do is not magic, not supernatural. They brought chemical componants together in the right environment, and the end result was a living virus.


128 posted on 12/21/2004 11:09:28 AM PST by orionblamblam
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To: orionblamblam
No, it does not. What scientists do is not magic, not supernatural.

To bastardize Arthur C. Clarke's saying: To the desperately deliberately ignorant, any technology is seen as magic. Evil, competing magic.

132 posted on 12/21/2004 11:14:17 AM PST by balrog666 (The invisible and the nonexistent look very much alike.)
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To: orionblamblam

Reminds me of the joke:

God and a scientist arguing about the creation of life.

The scientist says, "I bet I can make a virus out of this dirt."

To which God replies, "I'll take the bet. But you have to use your own dirt."


134 posted on 12/21/2004 11:16:59 AM PST by MeanWestTexan
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To: orionblamblam
What scientists do is not magic, not supernatural.

Quite so. What scientist do, ideally, is intelligent manipulation of pre-existing materials.

140 posted on 12/21/2004 11:23:56 AM PST by Tax-chick (Jesus is the reason for the season which begins at sundown on December 24.)
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