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From: John Ross
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 00:00

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Greffindel wrote <5hhf8b$48q@raven.cc.ukans.edu>:

> (no joke: I heard one of the oxymorons known as Creation Scientists
> claim once that he had proved that the speed of light was undergoing a
> logarithmic decay, and that tracing the curve backwards it rises to an
> asymptote at right around 4004 B. C.... a good laugh was had by all)

Strange chap, this Greffindel.  Next thing you know he'll suggest the
world isn't flat, the Earth goes round the sun, and man and ape are
cousins. :-)

-- 
John Ross
Southampton

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Subject: Re: Pi day
Date: 1997/03/29
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