Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.flame,net.origins Subject: Re: Dat GOD, he sure am a funny guy! Message-ID: <348@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 10:14:44 EST Article-I.D.: cybvax0.348 Posted: Tue Feb 12 10:14:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 03:15:27 EST References: <539@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.religion:5615 net.flame:8334 net.origins:734 Summary: In article <539@decwrl.UUCP> arndt@lymph.DEC writes: > "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. > He is talking, of course, about the search for the origin of the universe > and our current understanding in the 'Big Bang' theory. Isaac Asimov wrote a scathing and telling critique of that paragraph, which was reprinted in Skeptical Enquirer magazine a few years back. Why not check that out and report to us, Ken? Or do you just like pulling our tails? :-) (For your convenience, one of the arguments Asimov makes is that there are rather few theories possible for how the universe came to exist: all at once, or always existing, etc. And there are several religions using each theory. So, no matter what theory is prevalent, some religion can claim confirmation of its doctrines. Another argument is that genesis corresponds poorly to astronomical theories, according to most creationists.) -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh