Big Bang?

[malignd at aol.com]

<< the "science is truth and light and all must kneel at its altar" vs 
"belief in god/s is primitive and idiotic and believers are 
intellectually inferior" argument>>

This gruteque warping of the argument is certainly yours, allowing you 
to build a strawman and attack it.

-----Original Message-----
From: jbor at bigpond.com
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:22:09 +1000
Subject: Re: Big Bang?

   On 04/10/2005 Otto wrote: 
 
  > Wasn't it you who had put up the binary opposition of science and > 
belief in this discussion? 
 
  Not at all. In fact, it's precisely that binary opposition which I've 
been challenging: i.e. the "science is truth and light and all must 
kneel at its altar" vs "belief in god/s is primitive and idiotic and 
believers are intellectually inferior" argument. It's about as 
monstrous a sermon, and as far removed from the schema of Pynchon's 
work, as could possibly be imagined. 
 
 best