Sin

From: Diana Stevenson (dianaxf@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 23:38:38 BST

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    Wade wrote:

    <Nietzsche gives me the 'science is the first sin', and perhapshe was
    unaware of the dueling babylonian deities of which you speak.

    But it really don't matter what deity leads your parade, science is the
    first sin to all of them. Science leads us around them to what really is-
    all too often to chaos, but that's just the first thing, not the first sin.

    Sin is also a rewarding enterprise in this scenario.>

    Thanks for the reference, Wade; I'm in total agreement that science leads to
    what really is. I think it's also useful to study the origins of myths, and
    publicise the evidence, in order to debunk them or at least reveal that they
    are human inventions. Tracing the evolution of an idea or symbol can be
    fascinating in its own right, and seems a valid subsection of memetic
    research to me. Are there reasons why it shouldn't be?

    Diana
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