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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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rshow55 - 11:02am Jul 6, 2003 EST (# 12861 of 12865)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Technical facts, on missile defense, or the Osprey - have moral consequences - because practical consequences have a moral dimension.

'Jonathan Edwards': Soul on Fire By GARRY WILLS http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/books/review/06WILLST.html

It may not stretch the evidence to call Jonathan Edwards the most important religious figure in American history.

Johnathan Edwards has been a recurring figure on this thread. Lchic found references to Edwards and Dante, a related figure, in

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/md1279.htm lunarchick - 09:34pm Mar 21, 2001 EST (#1281

. http://WWW.JonathanEdwards.com/

. http://members.aol.com/jonathanedw/Edwards.html . http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/

. http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welc_old.html

Other references to Edwards as a moral figure - and a judge of human responsibility, on this thread :

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md01000s/md1023_1026.htm

3259 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md3000s/md3258.htm

3564 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md3000s/md3555.htm 6280 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6277.htm 6883 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md6000s/md6883.htm

7597 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md7000s/md7596.htm 8217 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md8000s/md8214_8218.htm

10049 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md10000s/md10045new.htm 1631 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_new_1000s/1630.htm

12657 http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_new_2000s/2657.htm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.xw71bnLZnbm.0@.f28e622/3310

lchic - 11:38am Jul 6, 2003 EST (# 12862 of 12865)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

EDWARDS, Jonathan (1703-1758) Colonial New England's greatest intellect, America's greatest theologian. Wrote Religions Affections; Freedom of the Will; Original Sin and works on revival

http://members.tripod.com/sosoutreach/wts/teachers.html

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