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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: anti-religion
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Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 11:56:45 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 15 11:56:45 1984
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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?


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