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To: AmishDude

Back away far enough and you see nothing and understand nothing. Stand far enough back and you can ignore your own child starving to death.

Science requires all kinds of talents, interests and abilities. It requires people who can spend their lives collecting and cataloging beetles. It requires people willing to wade through muck. It requires people who can speculate, and it requires people with the discipline to put speculations to the test.

The Einsteins of the world look, and are, brilliant, but their armchair calculations require the data provided by the plumbers of science, the guys who invent and build the instruments that acquire the data. Your aversion to plumbing is noted.

You live in a fantasy world where your imagination can erase centuries of accumulated knowledge without taking the trouble to address the beetles and the muck. What I find most interesting about creationists is their tendency to disparage creation, the tendency to describe physical reality as dirty and unworthy. Mere molecules. Pond scum. Monkies.

As if the God worshiped for being the creator is somehow equivalent to the four-year-old trying to cook a meal, and physical reality is just a big mess that will some day be cleaned up with the wave of a wand.


269 posted on 02/28/2006 10:46:35 AM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
Science requires all kinds of talents, interests and abilities. It requires people who can spend their lives collecting and cataloging beetles. It requires people willing to wade through muck. It requires people who can speculate, ... What I find most interesting about creationists

It also appears that science requires people who can assume facts that are not in evidence. And I'm sure your Korean colleagues would agree.

386 posted on 02/28/2006 1:11:34 PM PST by AmishDude
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