Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: Debate Message-ID: <1380@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 19:41:29 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1380 Posted: Wed Aug 7 19:41:29 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 00:09:35 EDT References: <476@utastro.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 48 > Dick Pierce at ...!teddy writes: > > > I have a proposal to make. Instead of casting the heathens of atrology out > > of the Astronomical temple, let's engage in a cool, rational, scientific > > debate on the merits or lack thereof of astrological principles. It is > > only this way that a homeland can be found for the wandering astrologists. > *********************************************************************** > I don't think this will work. Astrology is a BELIEF which, by its > very nature, is not subject to rational debate. > > Thomas Aquinas wrote an elegant proof in the thirteenth century that > God does not and can not exist. Has it made any difference since > then? Of course not. Aquinas even got canonized. *********************************************************************** > > Finally, three pleas to keep in mind as you folks continue this > debate: 1) Don't jump on other people because they believe in > something different than you do. 2) Don't call them names under > ANY circumstances. And 3) be considerate; it feels nicer to everyone. > > Thanks. > > Harold G. Corwin, Jr. > uucp: {ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao,charm}!utastro!hgcjr > arpa: hgcjr@utastro.UTEXAS.ARPA > mabell: 512-471-7463 > Dept. of Astronomy, RLM 15.308, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-1083 Harold hit it right on the head, and was much more eloquent about it then I was.... -- --- Rob DeMillo Madison Academic Computer Center ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo "...That's enough, that's enough! Television's takin' its toll. Turn it off, turn it off! Give me the remote control! I've been nice! I've been good! Please don't do this to me! I've been nice, turn it off, I don't wanna hav'ta see... ...'The Brady Bunch!'"