Re: Brin: naming the beasts

2004-10-25 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 10/23/2004 1:42:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But he wasn't. His published figures are too good to be real: they don't pass a Chi-Square test, meaning that he adjusted them to look better than what he found in his experiments :-) The notion tha

Re: Brin: naming the beasts

2004-10-23 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 10/23/2004 10:42:00 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Baker wrote: > > Which is not to say that Mendel wasn't an excellent scientist; > But he wasn't. His published figures are too good to be real: they don't pass a Chi-Square test, meaning that

Re: Brin: naming the beasts

2004-10-23 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Richard Baker wrote: > > Which is not to say that Mendel wasn't an excellent scientist; > But he wasn't. His published figures are too good to be real: they don't pass a Chi-Square test, meaning that he adjusted them to look better than what he found in his experiments :-) Alberto Monteiro _

Re: Brin: naming the beasts

2004-10-23 Thread Richard Baker
JDG said: > Strangely? Catholics basically founded the science of genetics a > long time ago to name but one example I see that David has already responded to this, but I thought I would repost my response to your last email claiming that Catholics invented genetics in case you never read i

re: Brin: naming the beasts

2004-10-22 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:32 PM Friday 10/22/04, JDG wrote: At 06:09 PM 10/22/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote: >Both faiths are theologically compatible with science. > Strangely, Catholicism has also turned itself into a >sect that expresses profound enthusiasm for science in >a macro-cosmos, despite theological Strangel

re: Brin: naming the beasts

2004-10-22 Thread David Brin
--- JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 06:09 PM 10/22/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote: > >Both faiths are theologically compatible with > science. > > Strangely, Catholicism has also turned itself into > a > >sect that expresses profound enthusiasm for science > in > >a macro-cosmos, despite theolog

re: Brin: naming the beasts

2004-10-22 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:09 PM Friday 10/22/04, David Brin wrote: --- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You been taking the missionary discussions or > something? What you just > described is basic LDS theology: God is our > Heavenly Father. He sent us > to this earth and withheld the direct knowledge

re: Brin: naming the beasts

2004-10-22 Thread JDG
At 06:09 PM 10/22/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote: >Both faiths are theologically compatible with science. > Strangely, Catholicism has also turned itself into a >sect that expresses profound enthusiasm for science in >a macro-cosmos, despite theological Strangely? Catholics basically founded the s

re: Brin: naming the beasts

2004-10-22 Thread David Brin
--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You been taking the missionary discussions or > something? What you just > described is basic LDS theology: God is our > Heavenly Father. He sent us > to this earth and withheld the direct knowledge of > this so we can learn and > grow by ma

re: Brin: naming the beasts

2004-10-22 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:24 PM Friday 10/22/04, d.brin wrote: NAME THE BEASTS Some of my own theological thoughts are incorporated into my new graphic novel, THE LIFE EATERS. If there is a Creator, He clearly intends that things remain vague enough that we must use the word "if" about Him. (Otherwise, He'd appea

re: Brin: naming the beasts

2004-10-22 Thread d.brin
NAME THE BEASTS Some of my own theological thoughts are incorporated into my new graphic novel, THE LIFE EATERS. If there is a Creator, He clearly intends that things remain vague enough that we must use the word "if" about Him. (Otherwise, He'd appear overhead in some blatant, unambiguous wa