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2011-12-18 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2011-12-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 Much as I personally care about the Higgs Boson (Dear Husband has spent 30 years helping to look for it), why is this author bringing it up? These kids don't know the basic mechanics of the world they stand on. They need to know how weather and soil and basic geology work.

In the medieval era, the Church recognized this truth and staffed schools with priests. Only the arrival of the Enlightenment wrested control of learning from the papacy.
Horsefeathers. It is true that the papacy was full of bureaucrats who were men of politics rather than men of God, and that they got hung up on some details, like refusing to let go of Galen and Ptolemy. However, the Renaissance and Reformation went a long way toward liberating thought long before the Enlightenment. And the Enlightenment, while it produced a lot of good, also brought forth the ridiculous credo that "man is by nature good; it is society that makes him corrupt."* Got that? Perfect human begins are corrupted by the society of other perfect human beings. But that's the theoretical foundation of so much of the claptrap that passes for intellectual activity, discussed elsewhere on this site at great length.

*If Jean Jaques Rousseau had bothered to raise his five kids, instead of dumping them off with the nuns so he could sit around and theorize, the Enlightenment might actually have been more enlightening. Anybody who has dealt with the Terrible Twos, and who has brought teenagers to adulthood without losing his or her marbles, knows that "Mankind is not basically good."

Posted by mom 2011-12-18 13:21|| 2011-12-18 13:21|| Front Page Top

#2 He mentions the Higgs boson so that the reader is made aware of his worldly knowledge, mom. He probably gets the New YorknTimes online for the purpose.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-12-18 23:56|| 2011-12-18 23:56|| Front Page Top

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