[Over43]

I guess a quick addition should be "added" here by me. When I write about scientific inpropriaties I am certainly not try to discredit the scientific community as a whole. In the same light, when I have touched upon religious mistakes of the past I mean that in a general sense, not being directed at any one religion, and I do understand that religion has been manipulated by individuals throughought World history for personal gain.

As with religion, I appreciate science and the progress it has made in my lifetime. When I was 5 I remember watching the moonlanding on a black and white TV and we had 4 stations. Five if you count the fuzzy UHF station from San Francisco. Now I have 200 stations and watch soccer live from England. And we have reusable spacecraft. My wife is alive today because of medical science. I have seen my 89 year old grandfather survive multiple heart attacks, lung cancer, and 4 aneurysms (sp) because of very skilled doctors. All of whom were very adept at their craft. Plus he's really tough.

So, when "critisizing" individuals who have pushed the evolution envelope to the edge I do so with a healthy respect for science and the individuals involed in the many facets of science that I only have a cursory knowledge of. Just as certain religious zealots of the past (and present) didn't get it right, some scientists in the last century haven't gotten it right either. It is a shame that a scientist as brilliant as Werner von Braun was caught up in something as horrific as the V-1/V-2 project. On the other hand Einstein was kept off the atomic bomb project because of his pacifist feelings.

Brigham Young once wrote that (and I paraphrase) it would be improtant for the Latter Day Saints to study their religion and philosophy, mainly because science would become the realm of savants and that our study of religion and philosophy would help us seperate the "good from the bad" in its relation to science.

I guess we take it all for what it's worth and do the best we can everyday.

O43