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From: "marylandnaturegirl" <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>
To: <ontheoriginofspecies@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 4:12 AM
Subject: [On the Origin of Species] Anyone going to the Godless Americans
March on Washington DC Nov 2nd?


> Hello all.
>
> I am a zoologist/photographer from the Washington DC area.
>
> I thought that there would likely be a lot of people in this group
> that are interested in going to hang out with American
> atheist/agnostics/secular humanists/free-thinkers, believers in
> evolution etc at this March.

One of the absurdities of the Christian fundamentalist "creationist"
position is the association between a sound and tested scientific principle
and atheism. One does not "believe in" a scientific theory, one accepts it
because it is fact and it is irrelevent whether you are a thiest or atheist.
It is equally absurd to suggest that one needs to be a atheist to be a
"free-thinker." Science is neither "godly" or "godless." It is like
Sergeant Friday use to say in the old Dragnet series, "Just the facts,
maam!"


> There have been so much coming out lately about our human ancestors
> fossils its hard to keep up.

That's true. The discoveries of Orrorin and Sahelanthropus have provided a
lot of material for palaeoanthropologists to squabble over.

> Has anyone ever been to the Galapagos?


Yes.

Jack