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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: Let's have scientific evolutionism too
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Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 15:09:07 EDT
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>  According to the ideas of many, "science" cannot allow for supernatural
>  intervention. (Indeed, if there were whimsical supernatural
>  intervention, scientists should probably pack up and find other jobs.)

Then how come scientists, engineers, and the entire technical community
have not only accepted but codified and truly believe in supernatural
influence on their work? I refer here, of course, to "Murphy's Law".
We all know what it is, that it is definitely true, and that we are
all subject to it. All the jokes and humorous corollaries are merely
our way of safely treating a basic and profund truth, which would
drive us to despair if we treated it seriously -- that all matter and
objects are actually at odds with the human mind and its desires.
This is probably as good a definition of "evil" as anything ever was.