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From: markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Another flame from greg
Summary: Unexpected diversions on "hot" topics
Keywords: Them damned infinities: works of the devil to confuse us all!
Message-ID: <4579@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 88 01:32:17 GMT
References: <8712271042.AA00969@garnet.berkeley.edu> <264@pedsga.UUCP> <24268@linus.UUCP> <1805@mind.UUCP>
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In article <1805@mind.UUCP> greg@mind.UUCP (greg Nowak) writes:
>In article <24268@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) writes:
>}In article <264@pedsga.UUCP> lae@pedsga.UUCP (Leslie Ellis) writes:
>}>>The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make
>}>>empty prophecies.  The danger already exists that the mathematicians have
>}>>made a covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in
>}>>the bonds of Hell ...	    --Saint Augustine	   (heh heh heh)
>}
>}I bet he was being prophetic about Georg Cantor.
>
>How times change. Hilbert said Cantor gave us Paradise.

One thing confuses me: I thought the Devil was Christian.