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From: cooper@pbsvax.DEC (Topher Cooper HLO2-3/M08 DTN225-5819)
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Subject: Re: Rosen on reason, etc.
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 17:31:42 EST
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> When you start looking at physical laws, though, you are left with
> things which, at some point, have no explanation. Why do you get
> a liquid when you mix the 2 gases hydrogen and oxygen? No matter
> how much chemistry you tell me I can say ``why?'' until you are
> backed up against teh wall and forced to say (shout in frustration)
> ``because that is the way the universe works!!''.

At least that is your ultimate answer if you are a ``scientismist''
(e.g., your stereotypical grade-school science teacher) rather than
a scientist.  If you're a scientist you say (probably without shouting)
``I don't know ... yet.''  This is one of the ways in which science
differs from most religions.

		Topher Cooper

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