Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix

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From: Andrew Mullhaupt
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 15:30

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In article <6163@tuegate.tue.nl> johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers) writes:

>Why should there be such area's? 3000 years ago people explained
>lightning with Donar, the god of lightning. Now we know it's
>electricity. Give me one (1) goog reason why this shouldn't happen
>with anything.

Are you so sure that in 3000 years our present understanding of electricity
will not more resemble Donar than what will be current? But does the fact
that you must use what is sure to become a pitifully limited understanding
like Maxwell's equations mean that you don't have a clue about what's going
on?

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt

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From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: sci.physics
Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
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Date: 6 Nov 92 15:30:30 GMT
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