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The Myth of Science Vs. Faith
The left is trying to get a lot of mileage by making an issue of the faith of supporters of President Bush.

Now, I cannot see the advantage to this strategy in the first place, as the United States is a very moral nation. Surely attacking the faith of people is a losing issue from the get-go!

However, the left continues to soldier on, either unaware of the drawbacks of their strategy or unwilling to accept the reality of the last election as an indicator of the popularity of their position.

One of the most strident claims is that faith leads one away from science. Again, this is a strange position to hold given the propensity of United States citizens to make great strides in science.

This is not to say that religion and science have never been at odds. Obviously the Scopes Monkey trial and the Vatican's treatment of Galileo were motivated by a fear that a scientific notion was amounting to heresy.

Those controversies, and others like them amount to differences between humans, not differences between humans and deities.

The left, however, would have everyone believe that religious fanatics (are leftist editors thinking "redundant"?) are trying to stop scientific progress in such areas as stem cell research.

The left, as usual, is wrong. What motivates people of faith are their values. They are not rejecting science, they are making a stand that their belief in the sanctity of life makes them willing to proceed with great caution in an area where human life may be at stake.

The left seems again either unwilling or unable to accept this stance. This is puzzling, given the left's penchant for moving at the pace of a glacier when the life of a snail darter or salmon is at stake.

The argument is not whether progress should be made in science, it is whether progress should be made at the expense of the lives of people who have not volunteered to participate in such studies, much less signed away their life to science.

For those on the left either unwilling or unable to accept that, just pretend that it is a snail darter or salmon in that petri dish. Ah, there it is, now you agree that we should make all possible efforts to avoid killing any of them, don't you?
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topi From: [info]topi Date: November 11th, 2004 03:52 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
All I hear is whining. I could care less about them now. We won. We accomplished the mission. Let the Democratic Party go the way of the Whigs.
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reality_hammer From: [info]reality_hammer Date: November 11th, 2004 03:56 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
They should become Republicans?

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featherlady_jt From: [info]featherlady_jt Date: November 11th, 2004 04:54 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
Faith leads one away from science? What do they make of biblical archaeology then? I'm still waiting to hear about the expeditions bound for Ararat, because of that satellite photo of what sure looks like an ark peeking up from the glacial ice. ;-)
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astralweeks From: [info]astralweeks Date: November 11th, 2004 11:50 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
Now, I cannot see the advantage to this strategy in the first place, as the United States is a very moral nation.

Hahahah.... oh, you're serious?

Anyway, as a liberal believer in the God of the Bible and Yeshua, I have to tell you that you're generalizing. Careful.
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reality_hammer From: [info]reality_hammer Date: November 11th, 2004 06:54 pm (UTC) (Link to this entry)
Of course I'm being general. There are always exceptions.

Why would you think that the United States is not a moral nation?
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astralweeks From: [info]astralweeks Date: November 11th, 2004 07:38 pm (UTC) (Link to this entry)
I just wanted you, and everyone else, to know that Right wingers do not have the monopoly on faith and morality.

No country or empire has been or ever will be moral. If this country were moral, abortion would be illegal, and so would drinking and smoking for starters.

We try and put on a moral front, but other countries and anyone here with a brain, can see that we are anything but moral.
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reality_hammer From: [info]reality_hammer Date: November 17th, 2004 04:04 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
The point of my post was that mistaking "right wingers" voting their conscious as being intolerant.

I'm really surprised to see you say that we are "anything but" moral. Would an immoral country spend billions of dollars and the lives of its young men and women to liberate another country?
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