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Article #1239Re: Some quotes
From: Richard
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:29
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:29
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ronnie@cisco.com (Ronnie B. Kon) writes: >In article <1992Apr16.004905.7468@news.Hawaii.Edu>, vijay@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Vijay Fafat) writes: >|> St. Augustin (in reply to "What was God doing before creation?) : He was busy >|> creating hell for people who ask such questions. >1. I really don't believe that St. Augustine qualifies as a physicist. But he was answering a physics question! >2. He never said this. He believed that God created time along with the >universe--the question would be meaningless. I'll go back and try to find >the reference if somebody else doesn't give it first. Whether it is he who said that is not important. The fact that what had been said is interesting is. Do not doubt the validity of quotas, they are not meant to be true. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Richard H Chiu, UI,Urbana-Champaign l e-mail:rhc52134@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu l ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rhc52134 From: rhc52134@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard) Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.skeptic Subject: Re: Some quotes Message-ID: <1992Apr16.162914.28@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 16 Apr 92 16:29:14 GMT References: <1992Apr16.004905.7468@news.Hawaii.Edu> <1992Apr16.024425.19515@csl.sri.com> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 26