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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!ruhets.rutgers.edu!bweiner
  2. From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: Re: Noah's formation: The rainbow
  5. Message-ID: <Jul.22.16.08.43.1992.15059@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
  6. Date: 22 Jul 92 20:08:44 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul20.091322.13842@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <1992Jul20.170623@hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de> <14flcvINNi08@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul22.002655.25311@trl.oz.au> <JMC.92Jul21181331@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  8. Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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  11. jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
  12. >I'm surprised at all of you.  Isn't the rainbow God's warning to Noah that
  13. >
  14. >"It won't be water but fire next time."
  15.  
  16. Oy vey!  No, it's a promise (the Covenant, natch) not a threat.
  17. Although admittedly the gospel song does go:
  18. "God gave Noah the rainbow sign,
  19.  No more water but the fire next time."
  20.  
  21. Ben Weiner
  22. applied theologian
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