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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Proof of God's Existence
- Message-ID: <1229@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 00:42:11 GMT
- References: <Btw9nH.BIE@world.std.com> <1992Sep1.213206.18901@griffin.itc.gu.edu.au> <1992Sep1.235230.8805@massey.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Sep1.235230.8805@massey.ac.nz> news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) writes:
- >>
- >court offered to debate the existence of God. It happened that a well known
- >French mathematician was visiting at the time (possibly Laplace - I'm not
- >sure). He claimed to have a mathematical proof.
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- The philosopher in question was Denis Diderot, and the Mathematician was
- Leonhard Euler, otherwise the story is essentially true.
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- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
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