NationStates Jolt Archive

The source of the problem.

Eutrusca
22-07-2006, 20:49
Quotes from two articles in the same edition of the New York Times:

Not Your Father’s Neanderthal (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/opinion/22sat4.html?th&emc=th)

"Nearly everything we humans have chosen to know about Homo sapiens over time has emphasized how separate we are from the rest of nature. Genetic research has begun to contribute the precise details — part of the broader evolutionary argument advanced by Darwin — that show how surprisingly unseparate we are. The 1 percent genetic difference between us and chimpanzees still feels, to most of us, like a whopping difference. We’ll see how it feels to know our exact relationship to a far closer cousin."


Feeling Strains, Baptist Colleges Cut Church Ties (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/education/22baptist.html?th&emc=th)

"'You ought to have some professor on your faculty who believes Adam and Eve were the first humans, that they actually existed,’' Dr. York said."


The bais of most of the conflict in the world today can be traced to the conflict between blind faith and reason, IMHO.
Hydesland
22-07-2006, 20:52
What problem?
Zilam
22-07-2006, 20:53
Oh man and i thought this was going to be about you being the source of me not having any women, you handsome devil you :p
Eutrusca
22-07-2006, 20:54
Oh man and i thought this was going to be about you being the source of me not having any women, you handsome devil you :p
LMAO! Start a thread. I'll participate! :D
Zilam
22-07-2006, 20:57
LMAO! Start a thread. I'll participate! :D
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=493069


hehe
Dishonorable Scum
22-07-2006, 21:15
The source of the problem is concisely documented in my signature. For those of you with sigs turned off, allow me to reveal to you what I call "Rule #1", which is: "People are stupid." I've found that this simple principle accounts for the vast majority of human behavior. :D
Soheran
22-07-2006, 21:22
The bais of most of the conflict in the world today can be traced to the conflict between blind faith and reason, IMHO.

Nonsense. I don't have "blind faith" in anything, except perhaps in the existence of a perceivable objective universe that can be understood through rationality, yet there are plenty of other believers in reason with whom, were I (say) a national leader, I would be in constant conflict.
The Mindset
22-07-2006, 21:28
Thank the holy testicle for the second article. I was beginning to think that all who aligned themselves with the Baptist denomination were raving morons.