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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 10:06:55 EDT
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> Rick,
> 
> Sounds good that everything is explicable by the great god
> Science until you run into somebody like Goedel (who if
> we are allowed to extrapolate his ideas) predicting that
> we will NOT be able to explain it all without reference
> outside the System.
> 
> Maybe God is the Outside-the-System reference...maybe not ?
> 
> Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}

I find it amzaing how some people can take things like Godel's Theorem,
twist the meaning of it slightly ("we will NOT be able to explain it all
without reference outside the system"??????????), and utter it as "proof"
of the existence of the conclusion that they really wanted in the first
place.
-- 
"There!  I've run rings 'round you logically!"
"Oh, intercourse the penguin!"			Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr