belief is not a requirement for science or art, and artists and scientists share the problem that new things, paradigms, whatnot are "unbelievable"
there are a few unchurched loons who are unconvinced evolutionary biology has a basis in fact despite abundant evidence or how about, although organized religion and faith play a small role in the lives and thought of the majority, the history of human thought is continually erased in favor of abject misreadings of three texts most of my work is sited such that rather than a poem containing history, it contains heresy heresy is often literary criticism (critical thinking applied to texts), and this is what it was in my first book; also, Inquisition heresy, which was basically in the divorce between logic (computer...) and love in my new book, I am trying to extend that (in the first section) to the ways in which the ideas of modern algebra (chip design), most famously by Galois the revolutionary but unfortunately also by Lagrange, Laplace, et.al., the defense contractors of their time, were also ideas of cosmology, i.e. ideas of creation / origin the protestant female heretics are a bit different; the concern was what would happen if "just anybody" tried to read ""sacred" texts" -- it seems clear that while the notion is elitist and sexist, history has taught us what happens when people who don't know how to read or what text is for read or claim they are reading I've gone on long enough, but I also want to add that here in the US as well in many theocracies -- and this was what was striking about the original survey (although far too few people were surveyed to really indicate anything) -- cries of "censorship" and "free speech" very effectively have been used to silence thoughtful people and confuse the majority All best, Catherine Daly c.a.b.d...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
