Re: MORE ON THE FIGHT AGAINST ENTROPY!
Chris Hind (chind@juno.com)
Sat, 30 Nov 1996 23:30:50 -0800
>If they can be whipped into a "holy furor"
>over something that doesn't yet exist, they can be ridiculed the way that
>serious opposition to genetic research was in the late 70's.
>Tell a populace that they "shouldn't" or "can't" do something, and you will
>find them flocking to it.
>Robert Maplethorpe's exhibitions would have been little noticed events save
>for the efforts of the opposition to them.
>If the opposition bases its case largely on the Book of Revelation rather
>than serious discussion of the downsides of nanotech, and the social
upheavals
>it will cause, then much of the battle will have been ceded to the pro nano
>side.
*VERY* good point! Lets stir up some contravercy shall we? We could take it
a step further and claim that if christianity considers science satan than
we could revel in the fact that we're satan worshippers!