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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.flame,net.origins
Subject: Re: Dat GOD, he sure am a funny guy!
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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 10:14:44 EST
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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.)
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh