* William T Goodall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In the case of the Soviet Union and the United States, for example, > there are several overwhelmingly more significant differences than the > matter of religion to consider. So much so that I don't see how any > conclusion at all could be reached about the relative contribution of > religion to the development of science in either.
It's really kind of funny. He keeps making that reference, but as near as I can figure, his reasoning goes something like: a society needs some sort of ideology, and if that ideology isn't a religion, then it could be something worse like totalitarian communism. I rather think that a society can get by without ANY ideologies. Certainly England seems to be doing okay, and you Brits are much less religious than Americans. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
