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

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