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to: John Beckett
from: Robert Comer
date: 2005-11-22 08:56:24
subject: Re: So much for the `evolution` of corporate courage

From: "Robert Comer" 

> I love science, but I haven't contributed anything to it - I'm not a
> scientist, I haven't done any original research, and I haven't donated
> anything to science.

Same here.

> Unless you have contributed to science you are not one of the people that
> I was worried might be driven away from science. I'm talking about kids
> who are making a career decision. Bright people who are wondering whether
> they should do Law or Science.

You don't have to worry about that -- you don't have to fight the boogeyman
in this case, someone gifted and interested in science will do it,
Christian or not.

>Another 20 years of the current trend and I
> imagine that the centre of science will have shifted from the US to China
> or wherever.

That's going to happen anyway, we've got a problem in our society and it's
not religion. (at least not Christian religion -- it's going to be the
corporate love of the bottom line at all costs that is our undoing.)

--
Bob Comer


"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:f6l5o11m4cuqji6jdfk57orvrjbiiju8gp{at}4ax.com...
> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
> news::
>> It didn't drive me away from science and I'm not that unusual.
>
> I love science, but I haven't contributed anything to it - I'm not a
> scientist, I haven't done any original research, and I haven't donated
> anything to science.
>
> Unless you have contributed to science you are not one of the people that
> I was worried might be driven away from science. I'm talking about kids
> who are making a career decision. Bright people who are wondering whether
> they should do Law or Science. Another 20 years of the current trend and I
> imagine that the centre of science will have shifted from the US to China
> or wherever.
>
> John
>

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