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- From: mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.061954.17547@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 06:19:54 GMT
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- In article <1eprtdINNp1e@gap.caltech.edu> ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
-
- >Yes, but you can't put a deity in an accelerator and see what energy it takes
- >to split him into demigods ... Meanwhile, we chemists have a long history of
- >dealing with deities! Mercury, for example ...
-
- "And I point out that chemists dealing with Mercury made
- themselves exemplars of the old adage that `Whom the gods would
- destroy, they first make mad.' :-) How recently is it that chemists
- have reliably followed safety procedures which had some chance of
- preventing various esoteric sorts of poisoning? (And never mind the
- various proto-chemical disciplines, East and West, in which ingesting
- mercury compounds was intended to have beneficial effects.) One can
- only imagine what will happen if we let them handle Yahweh without
- proper safety precautions. (Proper guarding against high-voltage
- static electricity is probably a minimum first step.) :-) :-)"
-
- Michael
-
- --
- Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS "Indeed I tremble for my country
- mss2@midway.uchicago.edu when I reflect that God is just."
- mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on
- mschiffer@aal.itd.umich.edu Virginia (1784)
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