Diane writes
>
>it is western science that promotes the practice of sterilizing women in
>thirdworld countries,
Surely not. This is reifying science too far. Science is a human activity.
As with most scripts, the actor can choose the beats and the cadences. The
following words of Bathkin are true of scientists as they are of any other
human (including Margret in her narrative that started this round if this
debate):
" I can mean what I say only indirectly, at a second remove, in the words
I take and give back to the community according to the protocols it
establishes. My voice can mean, but only with others: at times a chorus,
but at the best of times in a dialogue"
Of course we can be sure of the following:
"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
St. Augustine (354-430) from DeGenesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37
Martin Owen
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