Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!oliven!rap From: rap@oliven.UUCP (Robert A. Pease) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: stuff & nonsense Message-ID: <819@oliven.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 16:30:45 EST Article-I.D.: oliven.819 Posted: Tue Mar 5 16:30:45 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 03:20:10 EST References: <817@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Olivetti ATC, Cupertino, Ca Lines: 26 . Misquotes are not nice. >In Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the proof goes something like this: >"I refuse to prove I exist", says God, "for proof denies faith and without >faith, I am nothing." > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > "I AM UNHAPPY" WOULD BE MORE LIKE IT. > >"But", says Man, "the Babelfish is a dead give-away. Surely something so >mind-bogglingly useful as that couldn't evolve by chance. Therefore, you >exist." What the book sais is; "But", says Man, "the Babelfish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED." "Oh dear," sais God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. -- Robert A. Pease {hplabs|zehntel|fortune|ios|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!oliven!rap