Hi all,
I'm terribly sorry about the long time out. Sudbury Valley
has been in the midst of some computer problems.
-- --Scott David Gray reply to: sgray_at_sudval.org http://www.unseelie.org/ ============================================================ ... Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth. Most notably I have ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old. Well, I haven't ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected it. There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between prejudice and postjudice. Prejudice is making a judgment before you have looked at the facts. Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards. Prejudice is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious mistakes. Postjudice is not terrible. You can't be perfect of course; you may make mistakes also. But it is permissible to make a judgment after you have examined the evidence. In some circles it is even encouraged. -- Carl Sagan ============================================================Received on Fri May 03 2002 - 18:44:53 EDT
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