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Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, November 5, 1984 Astronaut: church/tech agree By DEENA ELLIOTT Reporter Religious convictions and be lief's are not necessarily in conflict with science, NASA astronaut Don Leslie Lind, said Friday dur ing his presentation on science and religion. Sponsored by the local Latter Day Saints Student Association, Lind, who has a doctorate in high energy nuclear physics, said his scientific education and his Mor mon beliefs “are completely com patible.” He said the three arguments il lustrating the incompatability of science and religion often pre sented to him were: science is on a physical level and religion is on an intangible level; science can be proven through experimentation and religion cannot; and religion is based completely on faith, but science is fact. Lind said the separation of the “material world” of science and the “intangible world” of religion has an overlap that these argu ments don’t recognize. For each argument, he showed how sci ence and religion have reciprocal traits. Lind said scientists believed in a magnetic field they have never seen, similar to the fact that peo ple believe in a God they have never seen. The second argument stated the use of experiments to prove fact was unavailable to religion. Lind said “if Christianity pro duces good people, that would prove something must be funda mentally true” in the verse from the Bible “by their fruits ye shall know them.” He said experimen tation with other beliefs could be proven by people willing to try them. The third argument stated reli gions had to accept things on faith while science did not. Lind said scientists in the laboratory groping for physical principles believe in those unproven possi bilities until they are proven. 1984 Gospelfest not just a concert By KIM TREESE Reporter Mistress of Ceremonies Cheryl Richardson predicted that Gos pelfest ’84 would be more than a concert; it would be an exprience. It Sponsored by the Texas A&M Voices of Praise Choir, a subcommit tee of MSC Black Awareness, Gos pelfest attracted a large crowd to Rudder Theatre Saturday night. The musical extravaganza high lighted university and college gospel choirs from all over the state of Texas. Seven choirs were featured in the program, but it was the people in the audience who stole the show. They clapped their hands and stomped their feet and sang along with the choirs. In short, they en joyed themselves. The musicians had a good t® too. All of the choirs were wart welcomed, and all of them lived i to that welcome. They encouraw the audience to participate in|. program, making it an intensei emotional experience. Some of the best choirs wereil Texas A&M Voices of Praise Clio! the Baptist Student Moveme Choir of Prairie View A&M Unite sity and the Interdenominati® Youth Choir of Nacogdoches. Thes choirs kept the audience on its feet The Sweet Spirit Gospel Clio from the University of Housn Downtown was the smallest groupt perform but got the audiencesoit volved with the music that afterthf left the stage the audience contin to sing. Contadorans revise U.S. allies’ peace plan United Press International Photo by DA VID LEYENDECKER Astronaut Don Lind answers questions after his talk Saturday night in Rudder Tower. much like faith in the church. Lind said neither science nor religion has discovered all truths. “Neither field knows enough to have a good argument,” he said. Scientific accomplishments were discovered with the direc tion of the Lord, Lind said, and people should not try to ignore science. One without the other would leave him a lesser person because “both in their separate ways are essential,” he said. Lind said he has seen enough people have to reconsider their religious beliefs when they start pursuing a higher education that he felt awareness of the compati bility of science and religion was important. PANAMA CITY, Panama—Dep uty foreign ministers of the Conta- dora Group met for two days to draw up a response to proposed re visions to the peace plan made by U.S. allies in Central America, sources said Sunday. The officials from Venezuela, Mexico, Panama and Colombia met in Panama City Friday and Saturday in a hurriedly scheduled meeting. At the meeting, the ministers dis cussed revisions made to the original Contadora peace plan by U.S. allies in Central America, sources dose to the meeting said. In October, the foreign ministers from El Salvador, Honduras and Aosta Rica and the deputy foreign minister of Guatemala met in Tegu cigalpa and proposed revisions that would offer stronger guaranteest the draft treaty’s call for the remot of foreign military advisers, miliiar bases and weapon buildups in Get. tral America. Washington had declared dan earlier that it did not support i proposed draft treaty, drawn u: Sept. 7. U.S. of ficials said the documenic written did not contain the necessar guarantees that all foreign countrie would withdraw their military ai and advisers from the area. Without naming Nicaragua Washington feared that Cubawoul: not take home all its advisers orett: the sending of arms. Nicaragua surprised Washing® days before by announcing it sign the treaty. Ticket splitters may decide heated Senate race United Press International With polls showing President Rea gan leading Walter Mondale by up to 30 points, ticket splitters may de cide the crucial race for retiring Re publican Sen. John Tower’s seat in Tuesday’s election. Political experts have labeled the race between Boll Weevil Democrat- turned-Republican Phil Gramm and Democrat Lloyd Doggett one of the meanest in Texas politics. It is also one of the most expensive, costing the two more than $13 million. That is because Tuesday’s out come will do more than determine a successor to Tower. It will help de cide whether the Republicans hold their 10-seat majority in the Senate and whether the Texas GOP can re tain more than one statewide office. An ABC-Washington Post poll re leased Saturday night indicated Re publican Phil Gramm had a 53-40 lead over Lloyd Doggett in the, race for retiring Sen. John Tower’s seat. The poll had a 4 percent margin of error in either direction. Other polls showed Gramm ahead of the 11-year veteran of the Texas Senate by 8 to 24 points. Former Texas Republican Crov. Bill Clements, who attributed his gu bernatorial victory in 1978 to ticket splitting, last week estimated ticket splitters make up 33 to 40 percent of Texas voters. Clements said Reagan needs to win 55-56 percent of the vote in or der to ensure Gramm’s coattail vic tory. Pollster Lance Tarrance of Hous ton, who is> working for Reagan- Gramm, said his sampling of 1,000 Texans indicates ticket splitters Tuesday will vote for Reagan and Gramm, then switch back to the Democrats in other races. Tarrance said 36 percent of those questioned intend to vote a straight Republican ticket, 23 percent planned to vote a straight Demo cratic ticket and 35 percent said they would split their votes Tuesday. Of those, 76 percent said they will vote for Reagan and 58 percent said they would also vote for Gramm. The ABC-Washington Post poll showed Reagan ahead of Mondale by 18 percentage points, 57-39, based on interviews with 386-Texas voters. The Texas figures were iden tical to the national average in that poll based on interviews with 8,969 of the 12,000 voters surveyed a month ago. George Christian, an Austin, Texas, political analyst and former press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson, said the Doggett-Gramm race resembled “an alley cat fight.” Christian said Doggett’s chances depended on his ability to disasso ciate himself from Mondale. “Doggett has to, because the Mon dale race down here is virtually over, 1 ’ Christian said. Despite the polls, Christian pre dicted the Senate race would be closej <■ • / Meanwhile, Doggett and his sup porters claimed the polls underesti mate turnout in predominantly Democratic minority and low in come areas. And they cited a front page article in the Oct. 26 Wall Street Journal that reported President Nixon re cently predicted “two possible upsets by Senate candidates: Democrat Doggett in Texas and Republican Ray Shamie in Massachusetts.” In the final days of the campaign, Gramm repeatedly reminded voters that he authored Reagan’s 1981 budget cuts in Congress and , pealed to them to help in his goal a “seeing the president’s progffl through to a successful conclusion Doggett spent the final days of tk campaign labeling his opponentat extremist who was rated thd M conservative congressman in by the National Journal. Both Democrats and Republican were counting on new voters as then best chance of delivering the sta# for their candidate. i In other races, polls for both[»■ ties showed Dan kubiak leadinjp his efforts to beat Republican J« Barton and return Gramm’s 6thw trict seat to the Democratic column A&M Student Leaders Speak Out We, the following student leaders at Texas A&M University, would like to thank State Representative Neeley Lewis for his service to Texas A&M and Brazos County. Neeley Lewis stood up for Texas A&M during the special session this summer when he fought an ill- conceived tuition increase and we know he will continue to work for us. All students can thank Neeley Lewis for keeping Aggies’interests at heart. We know that he is a tight-fisted conservative who has earned our vote. We urge all Texas A&M students to join us in voting for Neeley Lewis for State Representative. 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