Smart Money Vs. Intelligent Design
Everybody agrees that intelligent technological life is a much greater leap, but it might be instructive to consider who is laying down bets on at least looking for it. Among the financial angels of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, have been people like Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft; the late Barney Oliver, William Hewlett and David Packard, leaders of Hewlett-Packard; Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel; and the novelist Arthur C. Clarke, who invented the idea of the communications satellite.Earlier in this article, the author mentions that an "Intelligent Design" film was shown at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Let me say that again: the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History! I'm glad the article ends on a promising note for those who are excited at the prospect of extraterrestrial intelligent life out there, but I wonder if evangelists (and Catholics) are seeing this as a sign of "liberal bias" in the media. On a sidenote, it's too bad that Catholics can now be considered as part of the Conservative Crusade for Christ, I mean the Republican party.
The smart money isn't always right, but this is certainly smart money.
(nytimes.com...space/19essa.html)
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