A fellow named Higgins made it in the south during the depression by providing the rum runners with faster boats and then selling yet faster boats to revenue agents trying to catch them. This not very honourable bit of bayou diplomacy had the result that when the U.S. marines needed a boat that would skim over obstacles to land at Normandy, he just happened to have one in his garage. Eisenhower called him "the man who won the war." (From the fine PBS special last night on D Day. Check PBS.org for more information.)
The Christian Church never managed to agree on one version of the Jesus story. It preserved quite a lot of different versions, tailored to the needs of different churches. There was some agitation to produce an amalgam, but the amalgamators lost.
When we talk about genetic diversity, we talk about the preservation of transformable information. When we talk about cultural diversity, we talk about the preservation of transformable information.
Posted by shea0017 at May 20, 2004 11:31 AM