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From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac)
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Subject: Re: Response to Response to flames
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 21:57:33 EDT
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> >[Dan Boskovich]
> >  Please! You don't think the Big Bang ranks as superstition?
> 
> No, because people would not cling to it after conclusive evidence was
> found against it.
> 
> >                                                              We are
> >  the product of an explosion? Your Big Bang theory isn't worth the
> >  powder to blow it up. And its been blown full of holes.
> 
> Could be (I don't follow cosmology too closely), but I'm not sure I
> believe you.  You have a history of making uncertain, and even blatantly
> false statements.  ("Creation is falsifiable," "Evolution is unfalsifiable,"
> "P.E. involves reptiles giving birth to birds," etc.)
> 
I *do* follow cosmology quite closely (for obvious reasons).  Current cosmology
is the result of continuing interaction between experiment and theory.  I'd
be mildly interested in hearing Dan justify his statements.
> 
> *You* had better read up on P.E., from a good source.  "The Wonderful Egg",
> which you listed in another article as your source on P.E., is a children's
> book.  You know, the kind where all the ideas get simplified so the young
> and young at mind can understand them.  Looks like it failed in your case.

Are we talking about "The Enormous Egg" or some book I've never heard of?
This is a serious question.  I like to keep track of good children's books.

"Don't argue with a fool.      Ethan Vishniac
 Borrow his money."            {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
                               Department of Astronomy
                               University of Texas