Index · 7 messages in 1 thread · 28 Dec 2005 – 02 Jan 2006

galt_57

• Blish's "Conscience" vs. Wolfe's "Fifth Head"Usenet
  Perhaps the statistics don't actually support the concern I voiced above -- I don't know. Urban legend would suggest that NBA stars tend to father far more children than any intell…
  02 Jan 2006, 18:38
• Blish's "Conscience" vs. Wolfe's "Fifth Head"Usenet
  Also when you consider the likely (or at least predictable) decline of Western civilization simply due to the differential birth rates, the hidden religious morality in this story …
  01 Jan 2006, 15:16
• Blish's "Conscience" vs. Wolfe's "Fifth Head"Usenet
  Well, I see it as basically a statement that mankind can't be improved. You see we were made the way we are by our "creator" and this is the only way we can be (ie Biblical viewpoi…
  29 Dec 2005, 00:12
• Blish's "Conscience" vs. Wolfe's "Fifth Head"Usenet
  Because clones are evil, you see. They just are.…
  28 Dec 2005, 22:57
• Blish's "Conscience" vs. Wolfe's "Fifth Head"Usenet
  Oh no, I believe that very, very intelligent people can and are hoodwinked by religion and accept its presumption of moral authority. I also accept that being hoodwinked is not the…
  28 Dec 2005, 20:42
• Blish's "Conscience" vs. Wolfe's "Fifth Head"Usenet
  Cloning and the genetic improvement of humankind is purely evil and doomed to failure. Ok, it is wonderful writing but there is a dead skunk buried in the middle of it.…
  28 Dec 2005, 18:36
• opened Blish's "Conscience" vs. Wolfe's "Fifth Head"Usenet
  Contrasting the stories "A Case of Conscence" and "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" on the topic of religious redemption and inherent mortal flaws I am dismayed that Wolfe seems to want…
  28 Dec 2005, 14:55

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