To: general_re
I'm almost afraid to ask what sort of mysticism is proposed as an alternative ... No need to wonder. If that alternative should come to pass, you and I will be among the first to be slaughtered. Or maybe we'll go in the second or third wave of purification, because there are far more prominent thinkers out there than you and I. It will then be the victorious creationists who will have to live, somehow, in the hell-on-earth that will inevitably result from their ceaseless war on reason.
[To anyone who's wondering ... yeah, I'm talking about you.]
1,894 posted on
05/24/2003 7:09:50 AM PDT by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: PatrickHenry
We should take steps to mitigate the damage in case the worst does come to pass - I think we ought to collect up the sort of rationally obtained knowledge which is denied here, and preserve it for future generations to rediscover after the end of the coming Second Dark Ages. Of course, it'll have to be in an easily-digestible format, since they'll need to re-learn virtually everything from the ground up. My personal contribution to the time capsule will be a little index card that says: THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY AT NIGHT ARE CALLED "STARS".
1,895 posted on
05/24/2003 7:37:36 AM PDT by
general_re
(When you step on the brakes, you're putting your life in your foot's hands...)
To: PatrickHenry
Evolution (( fortuitous mutation // anarchy )) is a was on science !
1,897 posted on
05/24/2003 7:46:47 AM PDT by
f.Christian
(( apocalypsis, from Gr. apokalypsis, from apokalyptein to uncover, from apo- + kalyptein to cover))
To: PatrickHenry; general_re
*****I'm almost afraid to ask what sort of mysticism is proposed as an alternative ... *****
It's already on fllm in the "Handmaid's Tale":
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0099731 I remember seeing it in theatrical release; it was mortifying.
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