From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew
Newsgroups: net.flame
Title: Re: miracles
Article-I.D.: ihuxr.318
Posted: Thu Feb  3 12:09:05 1983
Received: Fri Feb  4 07:45:37 1983
Reply-To: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.)

I think it was Francis Bacon who remarked, "The root of all superstition
is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."

I think it was also he that related the story of the sailor who,
when shown the site of a chapel built in thanks to God by the survivors
of a shipwreck, inquired, "Where is the chapel built by them that was
drowned?"

Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew