<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Brent Neal wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Einstein was certainly quite wrong about the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics, but that didn't make him stupid. It merely made his position incorrect. </span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">I don't think we accomplish much by assuming people are stupid when they are, to our minds, mistaken.<br></span></blockquote><br></div><div>So do you think the word "stupid" should be removed from the English language? And if you can't use that word in reference to religion when in the world can you use it? We are not talking about some esoteric point in physics, we are talking about people who want to crash airliners into skyscrapers and the moderates who give them cover by demanding respect for a particular brand of mind cancer. I make no apology in calling that stupid as well as evil.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><br></body></html>