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- From: JIM.DIXON@f240.n353.z1.fidonet.org (JIM DIXON)
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- Subject: Re: Evolution
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 11:47:00 PDT
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- Jim Dixon is responding to Mickey Rowe's bytes to All
- about Re: Evolution
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- MR> From: rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe)
- MR> Date: 20 Dec 92 21:38:37 GMT
- MR> In article <31105.2B322E42@puddle.fidonet.org>
- MR> Jessica.Smith@p0.f14.n346.z1.fidonet.org (Jessica Smith) writes:
- >To Mickey-
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- >Will scientists ever have enough information to prove positively
- >where we came from?
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- MR> To really answer this, I'd have to drift a bit far from the topic of
- MR> science. Rather than do that, I'll paraphrase something that Indiana
- MR> Jones said in "The Last Crusade".
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- MR> Science is in the business of finding facts, not truth. If you want
-
- Or as R. A. Heinlein once wrote;
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- "There are 3 schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the
- changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try
- to see a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science.
- Three: Awarness that you live in a malevolent universe controlled by
- Murphy's law, sometimes offset in part by Brewster's Factor: that's
- engineering." ;-)
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- ... There are 3 sides to every story, Their side, Your side, and the Truth
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