On 14-Sep-07, at 5:55 PM, 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.
Me. Dawkins is a serious scientist. If there is any plausible evidence found contradicting his position on evolution then he would change his mind. A fundamentalist places faith in some revealed magic above all else, facts be damned, logic ignored, reason forgotten.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Strange OpCodes: YVR: Branch to Vancouver