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- From: pechever@phakt.usc.edu (Paul Echeverri)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 21:30:14 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <9702@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP] seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp) writes:
- ] "Those who think Reality is a matter of opinion are invited to
- ]debate the matter with an oncoming bullet. The bullet's answer will be
- ]swift, decisive, and utterly final."
- [deletia]
-
- Impu-Sebek grins maniacally, pulls out a large gun, and shoots himself in the
- temple. He then pulls a pearl from his hair at the aiming point and offers
- it to Sea Wasp amidst boos and catcalling.
- "Ok, so I was cheating :)"
- "Seriously, tho, I regard that retort as rather absolutist. Fictons are an
- amusing concept for me to play with, but I certainly would hesitate to trust
- /use them in the physical world. But that reason alone is not enough for me
- to believe in a rigid, bound-by-laws-of-physics universe. There's always
- something else, something beyond the current model; that's what I like about
- science. But sometimes people take Ockham's Razor too seriously...some of
- us like a little stubble hyar and thar :)"
- Impu-Sebek bends to his baliset, and streamers of light issue along with
- sound, weaving a cloak of light that surrounds the Sea Wasp for a lingering
- moment.
- As the light fades, the Sea Wasp finds a steaming mug of something murky
- in front of him.
- Impu-Sebek smiles quietly and declines to say exactly what is in the mug, but
- --
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