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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Is General Goodness just a moral principle? Is paleontology?
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 02:53:16 EDT
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> I just love the way you explain cosmology, "The study of a self-perpetuating,
> self-induced Universe, especially without a God because we know there isn't
> any such thing."  That's not even wishful thinking, it's more like curve
> fitting.  Let's see if we can get the results to match our predetermined con-
> clusions.  Let's find some way to explain it all away with science.  Isn't
> it the same thing?

What's the "it" that's being "explained away"?  Has the "it" been shown
demonstrably, or is it just believed by some people because it makes
them more comfortable?  That is the question at hand.  You can only make
attempts to "explain away" things that have been proven.  There is no need
to "explain away" that which has not been.  Curve fitting, Julie?  The curve
already fits pretty well.  It's you who seems to be plotting points at random.
-- 
Meanwhile, the Germans were engaging in their heavy cream experiments in
Finland, where the results kept coming out like Swiss cheese...
				Rich Rosen 	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr