On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:30:37 +0000 (UTC), Gareth Magennis wrote:

This attitude illustrates perfectly the difference between the Scientist
mindset and the more open minded one. The Scientist mindset refuses to
believe that things we do not yet understand may be possible. Read again
the above paragraph. You are calling unquestionable logic fantasy.


Was there ever a more backwards piece of reasoning than this? It is the
scientist who not only imagines, but creates the new possible. It is the
religious mindset that dogmnatically refuses to permit forward thinking
beyond what it has been dragged to, kicking and screaming by the scientist.

For God's sake Mr Sullivan, if you had a conversation with Christopher
Columbus and tried to explain to him how you talked to someone on the other
side of the world on your mobile phone yesterday, he would probably laugh in
your face. To get him to understand you would have to start with explaining
electricity and then radio. Chances are the only way he could visualise
these sorts of technology would be to think of them as some kind of "magic"
or "spiritual" or "fantasy" and may well have the same attitude as yourself.
Try and think just a little outside the box, please.

Columbus wasn't a scientist - he was a Christian.

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