Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 1/4/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!inc From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: anti-religion Message-ID: <217@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 11:56:45 EST Article-I.D.: tpvax.217 Posted: Thu Mar 15 11:56:45 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 03:47:55 EST References: <692@hscvax.UUCP>, <824@hscvax.UUCP>, <583@pucc-h> <811@dartvax.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 32 While I cannot expound the entire atheistic postion (if indeed thre is one), but many of us infidels have reached a sort of faith through other basic tenets than religious ones. Sir Isaac Newton had a friend who visited him regularly. On one such visit, Isaac had on display a mechanical model of the solar system. The planets all revolved around the center sun, and the Moon rotated correctly about the Earth. When his friend, an atheist, asked who had made it, Isaac replied that nobody had. Unable to believe that, the friend persisted, and still Isaac told him that the model had no maker. When his friend reached exasperation, Isaac said something to the effect that he could not understand how his friend could truly believe that this small, simple model had no maker, when he claimed that the universe, infinitely larger and more complex, had none. I think Isaac was a brilliant thinker, and he has pretty much summed up my attitude. All that came from somewhere, didn't it? Gary Benson [1;1m==========================[0m John Fluke Mfg. Co. [1;1mILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM[0m Everett, WA, USA 98275 [1;1m==========================[0m sb1 - - - - - - - - > \ allegra \ ihnp4!uw-beaver \ uw-beaver \ decvax! < > -----> !fluke!inc microsof / ucbvax!lbl-csam / ssc-vax / sun - - - - - - - - > /