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- From: robd@cherry09.cray.com (Robert Derrick)
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 13:12:11 CST
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- kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us wrote:
- :
- : And who, in this analogy, is the programmer?
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- The Tao is the programmer.
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- :
- : Where did the code come from, if there is no programmer?
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- All things flow from the Tao.
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- Heaven and Earth last forever. Why?
- They are unborn,
- So ever living..
- and...
- Stand before it and there is no beginning.
- Follow it and there is no end.
- Stay with the ancient Tao,
- Move with the present.
- [from the Tao Te Ching]
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- How like Hawking's belief that there is no boundary to time.
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- : I don't know, prabhu, your statements seem to be getting less and less
- : scientific.
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- Are they? Is it so? Were yours? Ever?
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- rob derrick robd@cherry.cray.com
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