You should look up Bertrand Russell sometime. The book "Why I am not a Christian" includes a lengthy section documenting the hysteria created around his appointment to a New York college. And believe me, he was an atheist, but he was a kitty-cat compared to Singer. Academia, from early education to the Ivys, is profoundly political, since what kids learn early is what they believe later.
This sort of reactionary crap happens every day. In today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, there's a cover story about Madalyn Murray O'Hair, a celebrated atheist responsible in part for banning prayer in public schools. She wrote in 1995 "I have little or no hope about the countr, I think that it is going to be taken back to Medievalism. The American people are not politically sophisticated enough to manage an (alleged) democracy." I have to agree. Jesse Ventura is in trouble for criticizing organized religion. The Pope, earlier this year, in one speech both apologized for the Church's stance on Galileo's discoveries, and then warned of the moral dangers inherent in genetic engineering! And around and around we go. Perhaps the open-minded folk can secede from this Union Under God (TM)- but don't count on it.
Bad idea? Everything we do and take part in is evolution. How can humans (animals) alter evolution in any way that it should be altered, because we are a part of the "web". If we kill off a species -- that's part of evolution. If we re-create them again - evolution again. I dont see how we can mess it up too bad... it's natural no matter how I look at it.
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You should look up Bertrand Russell sometime. The book "Why I am not a Christian" includes a lengthy section documenting the hysteria created around his appointment to a New York college. And believe me, he was an atheist, but he was a kitty-cat compared to Singer. Academia, from early education to the Ivys, is profoundly political, since what kids learn early is what they believe later.
This sort of reactionary crap happens every day. In today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, there's a cover story about Madalyn Murray O'Hair, a celebrated atheist responsible in part for banning prayer in public schools. She wrote in 1995 "I have little or no hope about the countr, I think that it is going to be taken back to Medievalism. The American people are not politically sophisticated enough to manage an (alleged) democracy." I have to agree. Jesse Ventura is in trouble for criticizing organized religion. The Pope, earlier this year, in one speech both apologized for the Church's stance on Galileo's discoveries, and then warned of the moral dangers inherent in genetic engineering! And around and around we go. Perhaps the open-minded folk can secede from this Union Under God (TM)- but don't count on it.
Bad idea? Everything we do and take part in is evolution. How can humans (animals) alter evolution in any way that it should be altered, because we are a part of the "web". If we kill off a species -- that's part of evolution. If we re-create them again - evolution again. I dont see how we can mess it up too bad... it's natural no matter how I look at it.
-- Bryan
100% Total agreement... nuff said.