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From: mff@wuphys.UUCP (Swamp Thing)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: astrological software
Message-ID: <345@wuphys.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 11:08:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 11:08:16 1985
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In article <2524@sun.UUCP> sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) writes:
>> GMS@psuvm.BITNET in <1967GMS@psuvm> sez:
>>      
>> >Might I suggest instead that astrology software be posted to a newsgroup
>> >named net.astro.superstition ?
>> 
>> No, no.  Post it to net.sources.games.
>> -- 
>
>Astrology is NOT a game, bozo.  Allow me to make an analogy.
>
>So get off your pedestal of scientific self righteousness, and acknowledge
>that there may be things which exist despite the fact that *you* don't have
>an instrument *you* believe in, in your laboratory.
>
>Lack of proof of existance does *NOT* constitute proof of lack of existance.
>Or did your scientific training skip over basic logic?
>
>				Sunny
>-- 
>{ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)

Enough is enough! (or too much, perhaps)  The biggest hole in this "arguement"
is that it applies equally well to "prove" that the moon is made of cheese,
that litle green men live on Mars, and anything else you might care to mention.
I'm not going to accept the existence of some hair-brained scheme unless YOU
can prove that it is correct.  The burden of prove is on the person proposing
the "theory", not the other way around.  This reminds me of the people who
believe that UFO's are aliens in spaceships.  There arguement is that, while
most sightings can be expalined away, there is some percentage (say 5%) which
cannot.  Well, one could just as well argue that, while most automobile
accidents can be explained, some small percentage cannot be.  Therefore, the
ones that can't MUST be caused by aliens from another planet!

If you want to accept astrology as fact, go ahead.  But don't expect other
people to, and PLEASE don't discuss it in a newsgroup dedicated to something
else.  Mabye we should change the name to net.astron, to remove any ambiguity.


						Mark F. Flynn
						Department of Physics
						Washington University
						St. Louis, MO  63130
						ihnp4!wuphys!mff

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