Re: Darwin exhibition frightening off corporate sponsors (fwd)

2005-11-23 Thread Halvard Johnson
Boo! Hal On Nov 22, 2005, at 11:57 PM, Gerald Schwartz wrote: The age is coming: it's getting dark... almost too dark to see. Gerald S. The Darwin exhibition frightening off corporate sponsors By Nicholas Wapshott in New York http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/20/

Darwin exhibition frightening off corporate sponsors (fwd)

2005-11-22 Thread Alan Sondheim
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Re: Darwin exhibition frightening off corporate sponsors (fwd)

2005-11-22 Thread Alan Sondheim
It's unbelievable. I keep thinking continuously how thin civilization, whatever passes for enlightenment, is. Look at the letters of Pliny the Younger, or all those poets writing towards the end of the Roman Empire. Things are always near collapse; belief and inerrancy are just around the

Re: Darwin exhibition frightening off corporate sponsors (fwd)

2005-11-22 Thread mwp
Have you, anybody, read Twain's War Prayer? If not, do. It's eerily relevant to today. (Or maybe not so eerily, alas.) m On Nov 22, 2005, at 9:02 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: It's unbelievable. I keep thinking continuously how thin civilization, whatever passes for enlightenment, is. Look