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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
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Posted: Wed Dec  5 18:21:31 1984
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>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