Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site psueea.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!tektronix!reed!psu-cs!psueea!pmw From: pmw@psueea.UUCP (Patrick Walsh) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Sagan - Falwell - ted... Message-ID: <195@psueea.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 14:53:27 EST Article-I.D.: psueea.195 Posted: Fri Feb 14 14:53:27 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Feb-86 12:00:03 EST Expires: Fri, 21-Feb-86 03:00:00 EST References: <510@imsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: tom@stupid.omosys.psu-cs.reed.uucp Followup-To: net.origins Distribution: na Organization: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Portland State University; Portland OR Lines: 27 Summary: lets get serious !! In article <510@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes: >(rpjday?) of the Univ. of Waterloo writes: >> In response to Ted Holden's latest flight into the unknown, I am itching >> ..... >>...By the way, Ted, you might want to read "Broca's Brain" by Sagan to see... >>...can't be right anyway, can it? Far too scientific, and all that ... touche!!, ted replied... >Sagan too scientific for me? I mean, I don't like to respond to articles >which I regard as BS, but this one I can't let go by. > To my way of thinking, Carl Sagan is to science what Jerry > ok, so he's a demigod... > ...religious equivalents of multi-national > corporations like Mobil or Exxon... and other horrible epithets... > ...simple and unmistakable signs. Real religious leaders, such as > Isaiah, Jesus of Nazareth, Confucius, Zarathustra, Martin Luther, > or Martin Luther King,... gee, even martin luther wouldn't have placed himself in that group... > ...They don't attempt to ram ideas gosh golly, i seem to remember something about some money changers in a temple ...something about a whip...?