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Freeman Dyson: Science on the Rampage
New York Review of Books ^ | April 5, 2012 | Freeman Dyson

Posted on 05/09/2012 10:28:59 AM PDT by neverdem

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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
...famous remark by his fellow physicist Steven Weinberg that "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion."[44]

Weinberg's statement is true as far as it goes, but it is not the whole truth. To make it the whole truth, we must add an additional clause: "And for bad people to do good things—that [also] takes religion." The main point of Christianity is that it is a religion for sinners. Jesus made that very clear. When the Pharisees asked his disciples, "Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?" he said, "I come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance." Only a small fraction of sinners repent and do good things but only a small fraction of good people are led by their religion to do bad things.

From your same link - thanks.

21 posted on 05/11/2012 10:09:01 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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Thanks neverdem. An "extra, extra" ping to the APoD list.
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22 posted on 06/08/2012 7:23:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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23 posted on 06/08/2012 7:26:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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24 posted on 06/08/2012 7:26:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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25 posted on 06/08/2012 7:26:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Thanks neverdem.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


26 posted on 06/08/2012 7:26:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thanks LiM.


27 posted on 06/08/2012 7:31:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: wastedyears

I think its a good idea to at least consider what’s outside the box.

Someone mentioned this short story by Harry Turtledove called “The road not taken”. There are some obvious problems with it but its a fascinating short story that raises some interesting things to ponder.

http://pastebin.com/aJQfubrK


28 posted on 06/08/2012 7:35:45 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: wastedyears; cicero2k

/bingo and /bingo.


29 posted on 06/08/2012 7:36:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: GraceG

And Robert Forward.


30 posted on 06/08/2012 7:39:47 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: SunkenCiv

Good subject. Worth that quad ping. Thanks.


31 posted on 06/08/2012 8:03:02 PM PDT by bigheadfred (MY PET TAPEWORM OBIWAN IS AN INSANE MILITARY HATING LEFTIST)
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To: wastedyears
...and that for life to happen, the conditions need to be like Earth.

What they really are saying is "and that for [earth] life to happen, the conditions need to be like Earth." That is a tautology.

32 posted on 06/08/2012 8:47:19 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Ineptocracy; the Obama way.)
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To: cripplecreek

An interesting story. Thanks for the post.


33 posted on 06/08/2012 8:49:40 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: bigheadfred

:’) My pleasure. It’s an unusual topic that gets this treatment. :’)


34 posted on 06/08/2012 9:00:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: neverdem; SunkenCiv

There’s a vacuum cleaner joke in here somewhere, I just know it.


35 posted on 06/09/2012 1:19:43 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

Well we do like to Filter Queens around here...


36 posted on 06/10/2012 10:44:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Little Ray

“Don’t care about “inside” or “outside” the box, but support the ones who can duplicate their results!”

Obviously, you are limited in your research that way. Consider the “Journal Of Irreproducible Results”.

http://www.jir.com/favorites.html


37 posted on 06/13/2012 6:03:18 AM PDT by Makana
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To: Makana
Thanks! I'd forgotten about them.

But, if you cannot reproduce your results, they cannot be technologically exploited.

38 posted on 06/13/2012 6:09:13 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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