On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:47:56 +0000, Larry wrote:

Peter Hendra wrote in
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Gerard Diamond. The first book of his I
read was "The Third Chimpanzee"

I'll keep my eye open.....

Prof Dawkins is just a typical college professor. Our math professor used
to march into the room in the morning and announce, "Good morning,
Inferiors." They don't have much behind those grey walls, you know.....

I just think Dawkins is right. The earth IS older than 6000 years old,
like Christians are teaching some really nice kids every day, here. I
agree this stupidity taught in religious schools as fact is CHILD ABUSE.

Larry

I was lucky at university to have a developmental Zoology professor
who appeared to be all the wrong things (to callow, know it all youths
and youthesses). Pat was single, post 50 and a Presbytarian Deaconess
with a form belief in God who lived at home with her aged Mother. For
some reason she took a liking to me and we developed a friendship - no
nothing untoward. She still had that childlike entusiasm for knowledge
that people tend to lose by their late teens. We would go diving for
specimens - well, she would be in the dinghy wikth the oars whilst I
dived below and we would later pore (sp?) over them in the lab. She
was working on intelligence in mice resulting from the food they ate -
ran them through mazes and found that they performed best on their
food of preference - millet soaked in milk. Forgive me, I digree
again.

When I asked her how she conciled her belief in a divine being who
created everything with evolutionary theory she responded that the
more she learned about evolution, the more it stengthened her belief
in a divine being. It's one way of looking at it. Personally, I don't
dwell much on the question as it is patenly obvious that evolution is
progressing about us on a daily basis if we would only open our eyes.

At the risk of an vehement and irate outburst from some, I fear not
only radical Islamic fundametalism, but the Christian one as well.
This doctrinal brainwashing that poses as education that is emerging
more rampantly now is something to worry about. You should read the
last book of the New Testament - "Revelation" about the 'last days'
and the second coming of Jesus - they all do. Quite frightening
really. Galileo with his trial and house arrest until his death would
feel right at home.

cheers., and hopefully I'll be dead before they gain political
control.
Peter