Re: scopes "where did cain's wife come from, huh?"

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:36:19 -0400, Burkhard wrote
(in article <h5rojq$40u$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

el cid wrote:
On Aug 11, 7:53 am, Ron O <rokim...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 11, 12:34 am, j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John S. Wilkins) wrote:





Mark Isaak <eci...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:06:12 -0400, Walter Bushell wrote:
In article <4a7ed943$0$2529$da0fe...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
martin <use...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
What indigenous folk? I thought god created adam and eve the first
humans, now there's a whole bunch out there that pre-date adam.
The people making the myths were pre logical.
The people today are pre-logical.
Everyone is and always has been pre-logical. Logic is *hard* to learn;
much easier to react according to unconscious biases and conditioned
reflexes. To learn to *think*, well, now that's one of those socialist
liberal educator's plots.
I may be teaching critical reasoning to business and politics students
next year if an application comes off. I have my work cut out for me...
At least they won't expect you to teach them ethics.

I wonder how the bit about 'those who can't do, teach' fits in
with teaching ethics.

Perfectly well, since it is a quote mine. In its original context,it
means that even the wounded and frail can make a valuable contribution
to the revolution, by teaching the younger ones how to fight. So John's
colleague only has to tell them about the ethical value of hanging
aristocrats from lampposts. ;o)


That seems to be a waste of a perfectly good lamppost.

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