AtDtDA(28): God Didn't Do This?

[Dave Monroe]

On 3/9/08, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "'I am a warrior, not a scientist,' protested Ofitser Nauchny
> Gerasimoff.  'You should be sending in professors.'" (AtD, Pt. IV, p.
> 780)
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> "I am a warrior, not a scientist"
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> Cf. ...
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVhcB9ucmdg
> http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/I'm_a_doctor,_not_a...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_McCoy#.22I.27m_a_doctor.2C_not_a.28n.29....22
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> Ofitser Nauchny
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> Russian: science officer.

If not a scientist, then why science officer?