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To: trumandogz

“Until then, universities are free to grant tenure to only their best and brightest.”

The best and the brightest do not deny the existence of God.

But how could it be, then, that those who do deny the existence of God think themselves the best and the brightest?

The answer, surprisingly, comes from a throw-away line by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: “Mediocrity knows nothing better than itself.”


17 posted on 05/13/2007 11:24:36 AM PDT by dsc (There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke)
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To: dsc

Call me crazy but I think that the Department of Astronomy and Physics are more qualified to decide who gets tenure at the university than a you or I.


24 posted on 05/13/2007 11:31:59 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: dsc

Call me crazy but I think that the Department of Astronomy and Physics are more qualified to decide who gets tenure at the university than a you or I.


25 posted on 05/13/2007 11:31:59 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: dsc

3 hurrahs for your comment—and I heartily agree with Sir ACD.


38 posted on 05/13/2007 11:50:04 AM PDT by vaudine
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