X-Message-Number: 23118 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:08:36 -0500 From: RANDY WICKER <> Subject: Re 23110: Another overlooked religion?? Content-type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Another overlooked religion?? Re 23110: Mr. Wolf says: >When a rival panelist derisively refers to Drexler's Foresight Institute as >a "religion," Drexler ripostes: "That's a slur! That's the third slur today. >This is not a scientific discussion." I would hardly consider nanotechnology a religion. However, I believe the term is an elastic one. What the person is really charging with the above statement is that someone is promoting what he views as the truth about a certain subject. The inference is that the person is closed minded and has already arrived at conclusions, blind beliefs that the person refuses to adjust for new facts. This is one of the reasons religion really isn't very compatible with science. Reminds me of when a Priest was about to commence last rites for a dying friend. His sister said she wanted to put on a CD because "music was really George's religion". She did and the last rites commenced while I took the dog for a walk. Randolfe H. Wicker Founder, Clone Rights United Front www.clonerights.com Spokesperson, Reproductive Cloning Network, www.reproductivecloning.net Former CEO, Human Cloning Foundation, www.humancloning.org Member, The Immortality Institute, www.imminst.org 201-656-3280 (Mornings) Content-type: text/html; charset=Windows-1252 [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23118