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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff)
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Subject: Re: Dat GOD, he sure am a funny guy!
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 10:42:02 EST
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> I couldn't say it any better myself, so that's why I'll quote him Rich, so
> listen to that famous TV bible preacher Robert Jastrow:
> 
> "For the scientist who has lived by his faith (his word) in the power of
> reason, the story ends like a bad dream.  He has scaled the mountains of
> ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself
> over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been
> sitting there for centuries."
>                  GOD AND THE ASTRONOMERS, (NY:WW Norton,1978)p116.

Calling across the abyss from a nearby man-made mountain, Ken?  If this
doesn't reek of presumption I don't know what does.  We'll know only when
we get there who (if anyone) is waiting to greet us there, and who else (if
anyone) might be waiting in the wrong place to greet us.  ("What's keeping
those damned scientists?  You'd think they'd have gotten here to the
obviously correct place where *I'm* sitting by now...")

> He is talking, of course, about the search for the origin of the universe
> and our current understanding in the 'Big Bang' theory.
> It seems that as we peep through the keyhole we suddenly see GOD's eye
> looking back at us (and I think I hear the sound of laughter).

Given your incredible presumptions (Who's seen god's eye?  Where?  In the
mirror?), I'm not surprised that you hear people laughing...
-- 
"I don't understand.  Is it modern?"		Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr