[eleni121]

As scientist extraordinaire and author of an empire of science-fiction books, Arthur C. Clarke is one of the farthest-seeing visionaries of our time

And a criminal psychotic who couldn't stop sodomizing little boys until he was called to his Maker.

[JenB]

Huh? I never heard that. Also I never heard that Clarke had died. Are you sure you aren't confusing him with someone else? Clarke is/was a British science fiction writer, famous for '2001: A Space Odyssey' among other works, and last I heard he was living in Sri Lanka.

[jejones]

A brief online search turned up no death date for Clarke, and I've seen nothing about your other claims; could you cite a source?

[jejones]

Ah...I may have found one of your sources for the allegation of pedophilia: a British tabloid, the Sunday Mirror. Looking at the Sunday Mirror web site tends to make me think it has all the reliability of US tabloids.

Also, I see a Reuters article quoted on USENET dated January 5, 2002, saying that Clarke has just turned 84, which would seem to imply that he's alive. It's certainly possible he's died in the past two days, but I'd think there'd be some word of it on the net.

[Kboylan]

nice to see the xtians are still arguing on peoples real beliefs as opposed to wild slander tsk tsk