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To: Coyoteman

"The Chinese trained many of their best scientists here, now they are graduating many times the number of scientists we are. That begins to add up quickly, especially when we transfer our head start overseas as well."

If you mean they will have more engineers, chemists, physists, then I might agree it is cause for concern. However, the possibility that the Chinese will have more biologists trained in TOE is not a cause for concern. Holding to the TOE is not going to give the Chinese, or us, military supremacy or technological supremacy - it just isn't that important.

The only advantage the Chinese have over us are sheer numbers, and more individual drive because they are a "hungry" people. Whereas Americans have become lazy. This has nothing to due with one's views on TOE.


133 posted on 04/11/2006 8:09:54 PM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: Sola Veritas
If you mean they will have more engineers, chemists, physists, then I might agree it is cause for concern. However, the possibility that the Chinese will have more biologists trained in TOE is not a cause for concern. Holding to the TOE is not going to give the Chinese, or us, military supremacy or technological supremacy - it just isn't that important.

The only advantage the Chinese have over us are sheer numbers, and more individual drive because they are a "hungry" people. Whereas Americans have become lazy. This has nothing to due with one's views on TOE.

Teaching that "evolution is just a theory" is a technique for destroying all science just to throw out evolution. It teaches that "theory" is just guesswork, and "what do those scientists know, anyway?" And it is wrong!

You can't have it both ways. The methodology is the same in evolution and in geology and in a host of other fields. The fact that some, for religious reasons, attack evolution as broadly as they do is a detriment to all of science.

You can't have it both ways.

144 posted on 04/11/2006 8:34:19 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Interim tagline: The UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT!)
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