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Another Point, In Fact !

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Posted by Michael W. Pearson on February 19, 2002 22:40:09 UTC

Those who live in primitive societies
(such as our ancestors too)
are susceptible to disease, suffer from a short life-span and are vulnerable to extremes of heat and cold, drought, starvation and exposure. They often suffer from fears and superstitions, but they have frequently acquired an astonishing empirical knowledge of their environment, its creatures and their processes. This is absorbed into religion or superstitions. Indeed it might well be said that their success, their adaptation, is precisely this understanding.

That level of understanding has sustained them.
If they reject real science and our freedom to
inquire according to our own system, how much shall we labor to empower them?

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most of that 'point' was from McHarg (nt) - carefuluniverse - February 19, 2002 - 22:40 UTC
how much shall we labor to empower them? - yanniru - February 20, 2002 - 14:25 UTC

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