From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 07:34:25 EDT
Wayne wrote:
I don't know any NAS folk personally, but peer selection and
gradual identity with the group probably have more to do with
the qualitities that make good scientists. I think Christianity
still belongs in that list, but we have been wasting time on
pointless and useless matters that have nothing to do with
why anyone would ever be grateful that they had chosen the way
of Christ in the struggle toward becoming a good scientist.
By Grace alone we proceed,
Wayne
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Wayne, you said you did not know any NAS folks personally.
I just received the following from James Russell Phd author of The
Germanicization of Medieval Christianity (Oxford U. Press) in response to my query
regarding an NAS meeting we attended.
He brought me along to a NAS meeting on the upper west side of Manhattan.
John Podhoretz was there and a there was a Christian there who voiced concern
about the inflammatory race hatred depicted falsely in the movie Rosewood. He
pointed out that many of the scenes depicted in rosewood were not historically
accurate and served to inflame racial tension and then suggested "What if
Non-Jews made a movie depicting Jews murdering non-Jews mirroring the falsehoods in
Rosewood?" Podhoretz sarcastically said it wouldn't be asthetic, but did not
condemn the falsehoods in Rosewood.
Here is Jim's recollection. Note the names of the contacts with Podhoretz as
speaker.
The West Side gathering was sponsored by the NY affiliate of NAS--NYAS. Here
are two local contacts. Dorothy Lang exited the meeting with us at the
previous occasion.
NEW YORK
President: Barry Latzer
Government Dept
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
<A HREF="http://www.nas.org/affiliates/cunyas/index.html">City University Chapter</A>
Chair: Dorothy Lang
Business Dept.
CUNY-Staten Island
Dr. Nelson wrote:
"...Anti-religious belief systems such as Marxism have been alloyed with
scientific progress, attracting people who hold those views or
come from that background into the sciences or the academy. Likewise, when
someone like Freud is seminal
in founding an entire discipline, it would not be surprising that those of
like mind to Freud would be
disproportionately attracted to the field... "
Kevin MacDonald covers the anti-Christianity in Freud, Marx and Boasian
anthropology in The Culture of Critique. If you want to understand it, get a copy
now available in paperback.
Wayne wrote:
"...we have been wasting time on pointless and useless matters that have
nothing to do with why anyone would ever be grateful that they had chosen the way
of Christ in the struggle toward becoming a good scientist."
If you understand MacDonald and the evolutionary strategy of Judaism, you
will understand the Anti-Christianity that has permeated the culture and have
gone far to appreciate science in the defense of Christianity.
rich faussette
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