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I'd also note that in the Wikki link tbieter gave, it says;
"He then become an explicit critic of the Regime."
I also note that the quote tbieter gave had no context and could be interpreted as saying that Stalin did the job needed to beat the Nazis.

Given that Haldane fought with bravery in the first World War where his Socialism was formed, supported the Spanish Republic against the Fascists and ended his days in India writing in defence of Ghandi's position against the British Empire, I'd say we can forgive him his Marxist Idealism. Plus, at ...

Thanks Barbara,
As ever your integrity is impeccable and I think it may be time for me to revisit the Ancients(and maybe for the first time Hegel )
Yours
Kim

Hi Richard, Great article and to much food for thought to discuss intelligibly at present. One comment. He should get a bloody proof-reader as it annoys the shit out of me having to search for prepositions and words to make sense of sentences whilst also trying to understand complicated concepts. Es...

It might mean that Hoyle and Wickramasinghe could have the last laugh, or, that Darwin was right, or, that the IDers are right.
What it would definitely mean is that Earth is not the only place that Life can exist.
a_uk

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Richard Baron wrote:...He appealed successfully against Cambridge's charge of gross moral turpitude, I think on the basis that while it was moral turpitude, it was not gross.

LOL
Re: The link to his poem.

What a man.

Thanks Barabara, But I'm unsure if that answers my obviously unclear question which is, do you think it possible that Thales may have obtained his technique for predicting eclipses from the Babylonians? That is do you think there was an exchange of ideas much like there was when the Priests translat...

oN BEinG the rIGht SiZe. J.B.Haldane. Had always heard about this book and had loved his answer when asked what, as a biologist, communist and atheist, he thought about God, replied "He has an inordinate fondness for beetles." :D :D So far it is one of the most brilliant and interesting co...

Hi Barbara and RA, Do you think that Thales got this from the Babylonians? As we've discovered that the Babylonian astronomer, Kidinnu, had a system of predicting eclipses that was not bettered until the late 18th century. Or was it Thales that gave it to the Babylonians? Just asking as you appear t...

Well it was a Democracy that held power over three-quarters of the World.

philofra wrote:I guess it depends how you describe 'power'.


a_uk, give us you definition of power as democracy.

The British Empire?

The topic being what? I thought you was just describing what you was reading? We was just questioning a fact you described.
a_uk

Psychonaut wrote:[img]Sorry, I don't know how to make it smaller.

Wow! I never realised how far North they made it.

Psychonaut wrote:And Spain.

I suppose Mexico and Texas. How far North did they get? As most of the Yanks current culture is French and English? Plus all the late bloody immigrants.
a_uk

philofra wrote:...And England gave birth to the most powerful democracy, the United States.

England and France I think.