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srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:

>    God needs another 50 years to decide women have eqaul rights with men?
>If Dr. Muto is serious, her statement illustrates how different the religious
>and scientific mind is, and why you have to choose between them.  

Who says rights are invariant with time?  Honestly, I don't think science
has any more to say about the existence of rights than it does about the
existence of God.  I've never seen a right, or smelled it, or weighed it.
Why should I believe they exist at all?

Now, I might add that I personally believe in rights, and particularly in
equal rights between men and women.  However, I don't think this has a 
damn thing to do with science.  A true follower of Occam's razor would
probably say that my rights exist only insofar as I have the power to
protect them, either through personal means or through some contractual
arrangement with my government.

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