Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!rti-sel!rcb From: rcb@rti-sel.UUCP (Random) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.flame,net.origins Subject: Re: Dat GOD... If only they were with us. Message-ID: <102@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 09:04:27 EST Article-I.D.: rti-sel.102 Posted: Tue Feb 19 09:04:27 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Feb-85 21:39:53 EST References: <539@decwrl.UUCP> <348@cybvax0.UUCP> <133@ihlpm.UUCP> Reply-To: rcb@rti-sel.UUCP (Random) Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.religion:5677 net.flame:8459 net.origins:754 Summary: 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. > More like the following: "...as he pulls himself over the final rock, there is a band of theologians who are at the bottom of the mountain trying to pull him back down and forget everything he found." Random Research Triangle Institute ...!mcnc!rti-sel!rcb