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From: rap@oliven.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
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Subject: Re: stuff & nonsense
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Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 16:30:45 EST
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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
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