Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 01:13:31 -0400 To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Newton or einstein? Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> At 12:50 AM 5/13/05 -0400, Ernest Lilley wrote: >Ted Said: "Cause-and-effect, rationally applied, led to every major >superstition/religion, you know. I burn a virgin at the stake and it >rains, a deluge that breaks the drought. Cause and effect!" > >Ah so you're of the let's throw the baby out with the bathwater school? The >virgin thing should fall apart with the application of a little scientific >method, assuming one could find a valid population for testing. What, like burn a non-virgin and get the same effect sort of thing? Please don't. That will blow the priests' whole "Don't want to be burned? Virginity cured while you wait!" gig... -- Mike B. -- To do is to be -- Nietzsche. To be is to do -- Sartre. Do be do be do -- Sinatra.