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At 09:30 19/05/00 +0100, Adrian wrote: >On Thu, 18 May 2000 21:28:34 +0100 J Oliver <[log in to unmask]> >wrote: > >> I have also seen the frightening effects playing with the Ouija board had >> on one teenage boy! > >Natural selection in action? > >Yours > >Adrian > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Dr Adrian Bowyer | >Senior Lecturer | e-mail: [log in to unmask] > Un (/super) natural selection, definitely! Like something out of Star Trek, and I would prefer not to witness anything like it again. Up to that point I considered 'medieval descriptions' of certain maladies to based on lack of scientific knowledge... and would also have been just as condescending about aspects of faith as some of the contributors to this list. Incidentally, condescension is a form of aggression, and insinuations that anyone with faith in a deity is lacking in intelligence or is unscientific are at best mildly insulting. To another correspondent: I am of (distant) Jewish ancestry, and certainly not neo-nazi, in case anyone wishes to class me as such. I do not often contribute to lists, but I'm a frequent 'lurker', and appreciate many of the contributions here. However, I was beginning to be rather irritated by the attitude of some towards those of us who have faith in God. I appreciate this is wandering off-topic, but feel I should have right of reply. I am happy to receive further correspondence privately. (Thankyou to Adrian for graciously pointing out *off-list* that I had misinterpreted re his comments about *Congressional Members* being at the Hearing - not just Staff.) Thank you also to Peter Lloyd on this list -- I had not come across David Hume's book, and I would be very interested to read it. Best wishes, Jenny Oliver (BA Hons, LRSC, PhD pending...) Website Editor, The UK Semiochemistry Network http://www.semiochemica.org.uk/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%