janelane wrote:
] I remembered this little dialogue after finding out that some
] people at my main hangout believe every word of the Bible.
] How could engineers, much less scientists fail
] to take even a brief academic look at something that was
] conceived out of human ingenuity?
]
] Even the Memestreams-allowed HTML tags can't express my utter
] disappointment in "tomorrow's leaders." Or, at least,
] tomorrow's room moms.

[ one of the other students selected for the summer internship i did at auburn was a biblical literalist. this was an NSF internship to work on physics research, btw, so, yeah, not too different from your situation. anyway, i made the mistake of engaging this gentleman in a discussion about the subject, only to find that logic and reason were completely foreign to his religion, and not at all welcome. My frustration gave way to anger, briefly, and then quickly to resignation... people are free to be morons if they want, but i'm not going to respect them for it. -k]

RE: The West Wing