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.

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 To be is to do -- Sartre.
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