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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
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Subject: Re: Re: Who says religion isn't important in America?
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> [Good Housekeeping's list of most admired men deleted]

> These people (I notice not a single scientist or
> engineer/technologist with the possible exception of Iacocca)
> have little to do with advance of society through technology,
> which is the most significant accomplishment of our times.

Technology does not, in and of itself, advance society.
It provides us with more efficient ways of doing what we
decide to do, whether for good or ill.  Technology has
produced incredibly effective ways to kill large numbers of
people at the same time it has produced ways of allowing people
to live longer.  It is unfortunate, if true, that technology
is the most significant accomplishment of our time.  More
than technology, we need to learn how to treat one
another at individual and aggregate levels; this is not
something which can be solved through technology (or through
intellectual snobbery).

> That's because the average man in the street isn't capable of
> understanding calculus or anything about science or technology.

It is probably more accurate to say he isn't interested in
calculus than to say he isn't capable of calculus.  He might
ask you how knowing how to solve an indefinite integral will
help him get along with his family and his neighbors.

> It's one thing to become a preacher or political leader, and
> another thing entirely to become a Richard P. Feynman, A. Einstein,
> etc.

Apparently you think that people related professions, such as
preaching and politicking, are easier than object related
professions, such as physics.  Why do you think this?

> --J. Abeles

Gary Samuelson
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