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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uvaarpa!murdoch!kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU!crb7q
  3. From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
  4. Subject: Re: Number of "religious scientists"
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec19.015057.28603@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  6. Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
  7. Organization: University of Virginia
  8. References: <1992Nov24.181159.12794@aoa.aoa.utc.com> <1350@kepler1.rentec.com> <1gttdfINNhk0@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
  9. Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:50:57 GMT
  10. Lines: 24
  11.  
  12. In article <1gttdfINNhk0@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> ST202194@brownvm.brown.edu () writes:
  13. >Hello, I was just reading sci.physics while doing research for a paper on
  14. >cosmic strings and I came across the following statement which might be of
  15. >interest to people posting about science and religion.. .
  16.  ...
  17. "
  18. >physicists are really saying, I believe, is that the laws of physics equate to
  19. >God."  - G. Burbridge, in paper called Modern Cosmology: the Harmonious and the
  20. >Discordant Facts.
  21.  
  22.      I hope this was made in a poetical rather than a serious vein.
  23.  
  24.      Otherwise, I suspect that large numbers of physicists would
  25.      disagree with Mr. Burbridge, God apparently being unnecessary
  26.      within physics in particular and science in general.
  27.  
  28.                            dale bass
  29.  
  30.  
  31. -- 
  32. C. R. Bass                                          crb7q@virginia.edu        
  33. Department of Mechanical, 
  34.      Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
  35. University of Virginia                              (804) 924-7926
  36.