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Steve Coile wrote:
> The destructive power of science is not limited to two devastating World
> Wars, nuclear weapons, and the rape of the environment. Advocates of
> scientific primacy like to associate science with morality but can only
> argue that the redeeming virtue of science lies in its potential ability
> to provide material comfort and plenty for all, and bring about an
> increasing equality of human condition. Such misguided notions are just
> another example of our own lack of purpose and consequent moral bewilderment.

Uh oh...serious accretion of conceptual
mass here. Possible gravitational
collapse...I'm bailing out now.

--     
Charles Packer
http://cpacker.org/whatnews
mailboxATcpacker.org

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