RE: paleonet It just keeps coming, in the US, Brazil, UK, Turkey, etc.

["Dr. Lisa E. Park" <lepark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Breandan--

Oh no, I am not trying to lump everything together.  I apologize if that is
what you thought.  In fact, I would advocate the separation of science (i.e.
evolution and the big bang) from all of these other cultural issues
(abortion, prayer in school, and gay marriage).  It is unfortunate that
science gets lumped in with them because I do not see them as the same.  In
a real sense, since science works on certain presuppositions that are not
necessarily shared with religion, it (science) should be treated as
different and thereby immune from religious influences. At least that would
be my hope in the best of all worlds.

Lisa

-----Original Message-----
From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk [mailto:paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk]On
Behalf Of Breandán MacGabhann
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:06 PM
To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: RE: paleonet It just keeps coming, in the US, Brazil, UK,
Turkey, etc.


Are you trying to imply that these issues are all equal, and that the
fundamentalist christian point of view is equally wrong on each count? If
so, I have to disagree. And as for stem-cell research, I don't think it's
quite so morally and ethically acceptable to everyone as you keep implying
it is. It's pretty controversial on this side of the Atlantic. "Moral
Values" aren't synonymous with creationism. Nor are they automatically
wrong.

Breandán


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Lisa E. Park"

the two are almost statistically indistinguishable in terms of their
attitudes about cultural questions (i.e abortion, prayer in school, gay
marriage, evolution/ID, flag-burning, etc
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