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From: IU6@PSUVMA.BITNET
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Another flame from greg
Message-ID: <33942IU6@PSUVMA>
Date: 18 Feb 88 00:34:42 GMT
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In article <4579@uwmcsd1.UUCP>, markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) says:
>
>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.


Who cares?  Pascal pointed out that "What goes beyond geometry goes beyond
man."