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From: art@hpfcla.UUCP (art)
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 12:12:00 EDT
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Re: Bang! or whot?

Here's a data point for you:

     "The second group of physicists holds that all attributes are at first
blended together in the universe and then become distinguished from one 
another.  This is the view of Anaximander, and also of those like
Empedocles and Anaxagoras who assume the existance of a single undifferentiated
material mass as well as of many discrete objects.  For Empedocles and
Anaxagoras also hold that things emerge from a universal mixture but they
differ in that one says the emergence occurs in cycles while the other says
it happened only once."     Aristotle    'Physica' 187a20

Given the length of time the controversy has been raging, it seems unlikely
that it will be resolved in this millennium.  Course, you might check over in
net.religion.  They are probably more up to date on creation myths.

art dumont