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Subject: Re: The Godless asumption
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In a previous article, ALFONSEC@EMDCCI11.BITNET writes:
> .... If Religion is discredited because Giordano Bruno was burnt at
> the stake in 1600, then Science is discredited because 120,000 people were
> burned in Hiroshima in 1945. 

No, World Politics is discredited:  the bomb was dropped for political reasons,
not scientific ones.  Science provided the means, as it did (in a certain
sense) for Religion as well.

Thomas Grossi
grossi@capsogeti.fr