Re: [Goanet] Why blame Charles Darwin?
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible Whow!, Santosh, Thanks. You have the finger on the button, indeed. Anyway, even if Patrick Ferdinand has lifted the quotes from others, we need to thank him for putting them in the right perspective. Now we know better. Cheers floriano goasuraj - Original Message - From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com To: estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 1:26 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Why blame Charles Darwin? --- On Sun, 10/4/09, floriano floriano.l...@gmail.com quoted Patrick Ferdinand as follows: With or without it, you have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things, but for good people to do evil things, it takes religion. Actually, the above quote is lifted from the Nobel laureate physicist Steven Weinberg. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. The above quote is lifted from the prodigious scholar Blaise Pascal. Cheers, Santosh
Re: [Goanet] Why blame Charles Darwin?
I don't know how to describe Patrick Ferdinand or take a guess at his 'qualifications' but what I will say is 'Hail to you Patrick Ferdinand, Sir', for this paragraph alone: quote To try to explain everything by quoting God is ignorance and mental lethargy, dressed up in spirituality. Finally, as regards Evolution and morality, organized Religion is an insult to human morality. With or without it, you have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things, but for good people to do evil things, it takes religion. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. unquote 'for good people to do evil things, it takes religion' 'men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction' like crucifying Jesus Christ. massacres thro' Crusades and inquisitions of yore demolition of Babri Masjid the Godhra carnage Kandamal burnings Cheers floriano goasuraj - Original Message - From: Sandeep Heble sandeephe...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 12:11 PM Subject: [Goanet] Why blame Charles Darwin? On 13th September, the Herald in its 'Mirror' segment carried an Opinion Piece by Bernard Simoes titled Did Charles Darwin mislead us?'. The same is available for viewing at http://tinyurl.com/npzrus In the said Opinion piece, the author pins the blame for all the evils that have afflicted mankind - terrorism, wars, racism, etc - on Charles Darwin and his Evolution theory, calling it the bane of Science. Today's Herald Mirror carries a rejoinder by Patrick Ferdinand. The same is appended below. Why blame Charles Darwin? By Patrick Ferdinand Mr. Bernard Simoes had written a diatribe against Charles Darwin and his monumental work 'The Origin of Species', three weeks ago on this very page of the Sunday herald Mirror(13 September), accusing him of being the cause of all the ills that have afflicted mankind since its publication, 150 years ago..
Re: [Goanet] Why blame Charles Darwin?
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible --- On Sun, 10/4/09, floriano floriano.l...@gmail.com quoted Patrick Ferdinand as follows: With or without it, you have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things, but for good people to do evil things, it takes religion. Actually, the above quote is lifted from the Nobel laureate physicist Steven Weinberg. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. The above quote is lifted from the prodigious scholar Blaise Pascal. Cheers, Santosh
Re: [Goanet] Why blame Charles Darwin?
Thanks for this one, Sandeep. There used to be a time when I could save one of every twenty posts on Goanet. Then it turned to the point where I could only save one in a hundred. Nowadays, I get to read only one or two good posts a month. This one from Patrick Ferdinand is a gem. A real Gem! Once again, thanks for forwarding it here. Mervyn1650Lobo -- Why blame Charles Darwin? By Patrick Ferdinand Mr. Bernard Simoes had written a diatribe against Charles Darwin and his monumental work ‘The Origin of Species’, three weeks ago on this very page of the Sunday herald Mirror(13 September), accusing him of being the cause of all the ills that have afflicted mankind since its publication, 150 years ago. I have some answers to the doubts raised by Mr. Simoes, a ‘Creationist’ along with his tribe of Fundamentalist Christians, who believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible. That the species of all creation were created separate and have existed in their separate forms, since the beginning of time till this date. He terms ‘Evolution’, a hoax and merely a theory, not a fact of science. __ Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/
