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- From: pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker)
- Subject: Re: God & Science
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.232136.315@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:21:36 GMT
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- In article <ripng.1.722008660@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au> ripng@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au (PAUL NG) writes:
- >What I'm trying to say is this: Suppression of ideas subsequently proven
- >correct has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION AND CERTAINLY NOTHING TO
- >DO WITH CHRISTIANITY OR THE CHURCH. The Church was just doing its job as an
- >important element of government. It tried to carry out its function as a
- >"filter" as best as it could, just like modern scientists function today as
- >checks on their colleagues' competency, via peer review.
- >
- >
- >So to all the anti-Church and anti-religionists out there, put up and shut
- >up.
-
- I am not anti church, being a member of one, but I doubt that all the time
- the church suppresed something was purely out of pious faith in God. Read
- some church history, and see how squeaky clean they were, NOT, at times.
-
- Your last comment was perhaps a little hot tempered.
-
- Oh, and as much as I am fond of Andrew Prentice, the Voyager findings don't
- entirely prove his modern Laplacian theory, which still needs work.
-
- Chill out!
-
-
- --
-
- Mick Pope, I "On Christ the
- Sir Frank Packer Dept of Theoretical Physics, ----+---- solid rock I
- School of Physics, University of Sydney, I stand, all other
- Sydney, Australia, 2006. (02) 692 3241 I ground is sinking
- I sand." - C. Wesley
- I
-
- And the comment for today is:
-
-
- "I'm going to sleep. Wake me if if there is anything else we can
- screw up tonight" -James T. Kirk, Star Trek VI
-