[alice wellintown]

I didn't say anyone attacked me. I don't think anyone did.


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Rev'd Seventy-Six <revd.76 at gmail.com>wrote:

> "...rather than argue against what I've argued, which is, that science is
> the new religion, the greatest risk to life on Earth, the P-Lister elected
> to distort my argument and recast it as an atack on people who work in
> science or scientists."
>
> For starters, it wasn't an attack on you personally; point of fact, it
> wasn't an attack at all.  It was a ramble and probably poorly written,
> sparked by confusion which caused me to ask you to clarify your position--
>  which I couldn't quite tell was farcical or not, considering we're having
> this little chat on devices that allow to communicate over vast distances
>  --devices which wouldn't exist were it not for science.  For as many
> hazards as you might argue science has produced, it has produced an equal
> number of benefits.  I don't see it as being particularly sacred, but I do
> think it's taken an unfair number of knocks over the last little while
> because there's this weird tendency to characterize a vast, fascinating
> field encompassing a scintillating number of disciplines as somehow being
> Against Humanity.  In P there's a certain cautiousness throughout to the
> uses of science, and that's what I thought we were discussing, not whether
> or not capital-S science were going to stomp us with Karloff size twelves
> for our failure to be god-fearing enough.
>
> You've again stated science is the greatest risk to life on earth, which I
> don't hold to be any more or less true than the statement that human greed
> is the greatest risk to life on earth.  We're at an impasse, is all.  Not a
> matter of fault if we disagree.  Again, sorry for any offense.
>
> -David
>
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