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From: cher@ihlpm.UUCP (Mike Cherepov)
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Subject: Re: Dat GOD... If only they were with us.
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 10:01:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 10:01:10 1985
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> In article <539@decwrl.UUCP> arndt@lymph.DEC writes:
> > "For the scientist who has lived by his faith (his word) in the power of
> > reason, the story ends like a bad dream.  He has scaled the mountains of
> > ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself
> > over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been
> > sitting there for centuries."
> >                  GOD AND THE ASTRONOMERS, (NY:WW Norton,1978)p116.

It is a fine joke. Unfortunately folks who could appreciate it
the most are no longer with us: Galileo, Copernicus, and others.
And poor Giordano Bruno would probably laughed himself to death!
Had he only been able to hear that - the man knew what it's like to
scale, and then be greeted (grilled?) by band of theologians. 
Oh, well.
                            		Mike Cherepov