Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: pillera@etd4260a.erim.org (Joe Pillera) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: RE: Don't mean to be rude, but..... Message-ID: Date: 8 Feb 91 07:43:08 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Lines: 40 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu > From: pluto@maths.tcd.ie (Caroline Tisdall) > Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian > Subject: Don't mean to be rude, but....... > Date: 3 Feb 91 04:31:25 GMT > Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. > > Terribly sorry, I don't mean to be rude or anything, but you're > all a pack of raving idiots! What grown man in his right mind would > believe in all this religion nonsense? If only you could look objectivly > at your beliefs for once, you'd realise that you're all superstitous > idiots....... Interesting, Caroline. Espeically coming from an e-mail address like "Trinity College." I encourage you (as an amateur astronomer and Christian) to go outside tonite and look up. What you will see is the Milky Way (galaxy) consisting of over a 100 million stars like our Sun, and 100's of billions galaxies (like the Milky Way) in the observable Universe. When the Voyager I spacecraft reached the orbit of Pluto, it looked back and tried to photograph the earth. From that relatively small distance, the earth was only 12% of one picture element, and thus didn't even show up in the photograph. I find it impossible to ponder that, and not see the hand of God. Regards, -Joe -- ----- Joe Pillera ERIM Research Scientist Image Processing Systems Division pillera@etd4260a.erim.org P.O. Box 8618 (313) 994-1200 x2754 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48107-8618 Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are solely those of Joe Pillera, and not of ERIM or its affiliates.