a bit more from Stephen's article:
"Most Americans seem to support programs that promote abstinence and give
information about contraception. A 1997 poll by the National Campaign to
Prevent Teen Pregnancy found that 95 percent of Americans say it is
important for society to send teens a strong abstinence message. But just 22
percent of people said teens should not have access to birth control."
Birth control prevents abortions and prevents babies having babies. The teen
birthrate is lower than it has been in over 30 years and easy access to
birth control is one of the main reasons.
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/121499sciarchaeology-women.html
>New York Times. December 14, 1999. Furs for Evening, but Cloth Was
>the Stone Age Stand-by ...
>...subtle but intricate details on a number of the figurines offer the most
>compelling evidence yet that Paleolithic women had already mastered a
>revolutionary skill long thought to have arisen much later in human history:
>the ability to weave plant fibers into cloth, rope, nets and baskets...Because
>they have emotionally charged thingies like breasts and buttocks, the Venus
>figurines ... Scholars have been looking at these things for years, but
>unfortunately, their minds have been elsewhere," ... Dr. Adovasio estimates
>that weaving and cord-making probably goes back to the year 40,000 B.C.
>"at a minimum," and possibly much further. (228/2343) [If this holds up it
>will be a comment on the subjectivity of anthropology that it could miss
>something so obvious for so long, under the influence of evolutionary
>ideas. Also may be significant for Biblical interpretation, because it will be
>more evidence of sophisticated human culture well before extant recorded
>history.]
fiber art and women's prehistory are interests of mine so I found this
article very interesting indeed! Thank you!
I'm not sure upon which part of your article you base your comments, though.
The comment was that anthropologists are more interested in the sexual
features of the figurines and not in the clues to the material culture of
the people who made them. What does that have to do with evolution or
evolutionary ideas? Male anthropologists looked at these objects which
depicted enormous breasts and exaggerated vulvas and . . . well, boys were
boys. It took female anthropologists to look at the figurines and say "cool
clothes!" :-) And your comment about Biblical interpretation went completely
over my head. It looks like a non-sequitor.
Susan
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>"While naturalism has often been equated with materialism, it is much
>broader in scope. Materialism is indeed naturalistic, but the converse is not
>necessarily true. Strictly speaking, naturalism has no ontological
>preference; i.e., no bias toward any particular set of categories of reality:
>dualism and monism, atheism and theism, idealism and materialism are all
>per se compatible with it. So long as all of reality is natural, no other
>limitations are imposed. Naturalists have in fact expressed a wide variety of
>views, even to the point of developing a theistic naturalism."
>("naturalism", Britannica.com, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1999.
>http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/6/0,5716,56426+1,00.html).
>Stephen E. Jones | sejones@iinet.net.au | http://www.iinet.net.au/~sejones
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interesting sig. Doesn't this refute almost everything you've ever said on
this list?
Susan
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