From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!mhtsa!eagle!allegra!sbcs!debray Newsgroups: net.religion Title: Re: Jeremiah"s prophecy Article-I.D.: sbcs.203 Posted: Sat Feb 12 11:13:10 1983 Received: Sun Feb 13 07:50:53 1983 It's probably true that more people have been killed in the name of God (summing across religions and over time) than in the name of Reason and Science. Reason may, on occasion, have questioned the existence of God, but it has not - to the best of my memory - persecuted the devout. Poor Galileo! Science is open-minded enough to throw itself open to questioning and to change. It can tolerate nonbelievers without demanding a Jihad. If Science has created weapons of death, it is the forces of Unreason that have unleashed them upon mankind (remember Einstein et al.'s letter to Roosevelt about the A-Bomb?). I, a freethinker by temperament, a rationalist by belief and a scientist by profession, find that a source of deep satisfaction. saumya k. debray suny at stony brook <* flames may be addressed to : allegra!sbcs!debray : please try to flame rationally and be logical in your choice of expletives. *>