On Sep 15, 2007, at 2:55 , Blake wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:58:31 -0700, Peter William Lount peter@smalltalk.org wrote:
To quote Richard Dawkin's: "No, please, do not mistake passion, which can change its mind, for fundamentalism, which never will. Passion for passion, an evangelical Christian and I may be evenly matched. But we are not equally fundamentalist. The true scientist, however passionately he may “believe”, in evolution [or a certain computer language or feature therein] for example, knows exactly what would change his mind: evidence! The fundamentalist knows that nothing will." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ guest_contributors/article1779771.ece?
Everyone who believes that Dawkins is more likely to change his mind than any average fundamentalist, raise your hand.
Folks, please. "Smalltalk" in the title of this thread refers to the programming language of that name.
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