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Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix

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From: Stephen F. Schaffner
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:15
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In article <Nov.9.19.53.57.1992.11917@ruhets.rutgers.edu>, bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
|> sschaff@roc.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Stephen F. Schaffner) writes:
|> > [Gene Kochanowsky writes:]
|> >|> 	Or if you are a bible thumper try this quote for size:
|> >|> 
|> >|> 		"proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing"
|> 
|> >	I doubt I've ever thumped a Bible, and I can't imagine a reason for 
|> >thumping a bible, but I'll bite anyway: where's the quote from?
|> 
|> Of course, this quotation isn't from the Bible; it's from "The 
|> Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."  

Shucks, I hate missing literary allusions.


|> [...] I figure the best thing is to ignore them.  Just like
|> I ignore street preachers.

Having just read Mr. Kochanowsky's latest blast in my direction (well, I read 
most of it -- hostility makes me nervous), I'm inclined to agree.

-- 
Steve Schaffner        sschaff@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu

"Three mornings a week I still wake up and think, 'None of this could 
possibly be true'."               (Bishop) Stephen Neil

	The opinions expressed may be mine, and may not be those of SLAC, 
Stanford University, or the DOE.
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