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Subject: Re: Help
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Date: Sat, 12-May-84 23:37:55 EDT
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From:            Charlie Crummer <crummer@AEROSPACE>

Re: Gwyn's #2-- Events are caused by the nature of things combined with
                the environment of the things.

Please explain how it is that the NATURE of a thing can cause anything.  
An environment seems to me to comprise things.  

Hey, all you atheists and closet theists, what's threatening about
distinguishing between interim causes (the dominoes) and a first cause (He who
knocks down the first dominoe).  The distinction is not an explanation of 
anything.  Physicists aren't in danger of losing their jobs if it is found out
that God exists!

  --Charlie