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

Peter Hendra wrote in
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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.


I have a boating friend, Kay, the other half of a friend who used to own
a Hatteras 56 FBMY they lived on when I met them. Kay is paid big money
by the Medical University of SC, Department of Alcoholism (I think it's
called) to make hamsters drunk on booze to see what happens to them.
Dan, her husband, is Head of Oncology Research and has 5 PhDs. They are
two of the sweetest people I know. Tired of toting their lives down the
dock, they sold the Hat...dammit, right after I almost got everything
working...and moved to a mansion in Mt Pleasant across the new bridge.
After a series of custom Corvettes, Cadillac Escalades (that wouldn't fit
under the roof of the MUSC parking garage), and an incredible 1800cc
Honda customized motorcycle, they bought a massive diesel pusher
motorhome. Last year they ordered a custom-made bigger motorhome to
their personal taste. I haven't seen it, yet. The "old motorhome" was a
palace on wheels....however, I don't know where you park a motorhome
that's BIGGER than a Greyhound Super Scenic Cruiser intercity bus....???

Kay's job has always caused me to chuckle.....especially after Dan and I
have had a few beers down in the big Hatteras' engine rooms....hee hee.

After they sold the boat, she told him and I she was going to buy us a
Detroit Diesel 8V92TA twin turbocharger engine on a stand to run in the
garage so we wouldn't look so forlorn on Saturdays with nothing to tear
apart....and make horrendous noises....(c; I'm not sure his rich
neighbors would understand. They certainly didn't like the MUFFLERLESS
Honda 1800CC twin beast roaring around... I didn't think it made any
more noise than the Langenfelder Corvette he had just because G Gordon
Liddy, of Watergate fame, had one.


Larry
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