Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!ethan From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Pontifical Academy of Sciences Message-ID: <876@utastro.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 18:21:31 EST Article-I.D.: utastro.876 Posted: Wed Dec 5 18:21:31 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 05:57:13 EST References: <281@uf-csg.UUCP>, <1186@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: UTexas Astronomy Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 21 [] >The Church may remark on abuses of scientism and technology, warning of the >pitfalls of reductionism, but it rarely proscribes scientific inquiry. For >example, even its rather Neanderthal attitudes on contraception would not >necessarily limit basic research on fertility. There you go again. Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis has been abused for far too long. All you chauvinists out there should remember that Neanderthals were highly cultured individuals with their own religious rituals and a large (in fact sometimes larger than modern humans') brain capacity. There is no need to belittle them by suggesting that they were against contraception or were supporters of the papacy. :-) :-) (In case anyone needs the reminder) "I can't help it if my Ethan Vishniac knee jerks" {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan Department of Astronomy University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712