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I circulated something called 'Minus 1', a sort of joke news letter for
several years. If you want to manage a power station, you may need to
know a bit more .... . though it is not quite accurate, I borrow the
following from the Net:

The famed encylopedist Denis Diderot was once invited to visit the
Russian Court by the empress, Catherine the Great. To the embarrassment
of his host and the rest of the court, he promptly launched into an
animated defense of atheism. Reluctant to muzzle her guest directly,
Catherine hatched a cunning plan. Diderot was informed that a learned
mathematician had discovered an algebraical demonstration of the
existence of God and would present it before the Court, if he wished to
hear it. Diderot naturally consented.

The mathematician Leonhard Euler duly appeared and gravely declared:
"Monsieur, (a + bn)/n = x, therefore God exists!" The upshot? Diderot,
entirely unschooled in algebra, was rendered speechless; peals of
laughter erupted around the room; Diderot, greatly embarassed, asked
for permission to return to France; and Catherine gratefully bid him
adieu.

You wonder if Plato or Aristotle would have done much better! Socrates
was not an academic and would have started a very seraching
investigation - or maybe left it to Alcibiades!

Rushtown@aol.com wrote:
--
Yrs as evr,
'foolsrushin'.



> 'foolsrushin.' wrote:
> > CYRIL GRIPPER AWARD AND FUND FOR METAPYSHICAL ADVANCEMENTS
> >
> > In the case of (the scientific) proof of the existence of God, the most
> > convincing proofs are set out below:
> >
> > 1.
> > 2.
> > 3
> > 4.
> > 5.
> >
> > As in previous years, the most convincing of the 5 will merit the Dr.
> > Cyril Gripper award for advances in Metaphysics in regard to theogony
> > [sic.]
> >
> > As Dr. Gripper is at Machu Picchu, working on his new coffee-table
> > book, Ethel Strange has agreed to return to london for the
> > presentation.
> >
> > Dr. Erif Rood
> > for
> > The Borgling Question
> >
> > Zook, Roman, Phil, Alan, Ctguy, Stuckless, Rushtown, etc.: 'Any chance
> > we could have sight of the accountants.'
>
> http://www.quadibloc.com/math/ide01.htm  Does this prove god exists?  I
> don't know I dropped out at Algebra I.
> Proof that god does not exist----The Holocaust, the existance of races,
> cloning, cerebral palsy.