19.308 author of quotation

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         Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:16:03 +0100
         From: amandagailey_at_neb.rr.com
         Subject: Re: 19.303 author of quotation

Hello,

You may have already seen this, but Sadie Plant writes:

"These themes of the very fast, the very slow, the very large, and the
very small, are the new agenda for the sciences of the twenty-first
century."

This is from "Information War in the Age of Dangerous Substances" which
was both a talk from 1998 (available at
http://62.116.70.35/sadie/drugs.htm) and an article from 2000 in The
Journal of Cognitive Liberties (available at
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/4jcl/4JCL23.htm).

I hope this helps.

Amanda Gailey

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Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:57 am

> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 303.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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> www.princeton.edu/humanist/
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>
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:51:40 +0100
> From: "Donald Weinshank" <weinshan_at_cse.msu.edu>
> Subject: RE: 19.296 author of quotation: Sir James Jeans --
> reply
>
>
> >This might be of help. It's a Powerpoint presentation by a
> scholar at
> >Michigan State. He attributes the quote to Sir James Jeans, a
> physicist. >
>
>
>http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan/Intelligent%20Design%20Lecture%20Notes.0319
>02.htm
> >-------------------
>
> ....snip....
>
> Thanks, but that was MY presentation in a debate several years ago. I
> tentatively suggested that the author was Jeans, but a recent,
> absolutelyexhaustive search by our research librarians could not
> find the source.
>
> As many HUMANISTS are aware, the Religious Right in the United
> States is
> pushing a repackaged Creationism called "Intelligent Design." The
> localnewspaper has agreed to publish my letter on this subject, and
> the letter
> includes that quotation without attribution.
>
> => I leave it to Willard to decide whether to include the letter
> (150 words
> maximum), which follows.
>
> Science has three dirty little secrets which the Intelligent
> Design folks try to exploit.
>
> 1. It's not democratic.
> 2. It doesn't follow common sense.
> 3. It doesn't have the Staples' "Easy Button."
>
> It's not democratic because we don't get to vote on the
> laws of the universe, only test theories to explain them.
> Intelligent Design folks want to us to put evolution to a
> vote rather than to the test.
>
> It doesn't follow common sense, which is based on
> everyday experiences, because modern science deals with
> the very large (the universe), the very small (sub-
> atomics), the very fast (relativity) and the very slow
> (evolution). Einstein said bluntly: "Common sense is the
> collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
>
> Intelligent Design wants to push the "easy" button. It has
> its canned answer to all complex questions -- the Designer
> did it -- even before they are asked.
>
> Lousy science. Lousy religion.
>
> -------
>
> NOTE: The "Staples' Easy Button" refers to a current advertising
> campaign in
> the U.S. by Staples Corporation, which sells office and computer
> supplies.They show a large, red button which, when pushed, solves
> hard arithmetic
> problems. http://www.staples.com/
>
>
>
>
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