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Article: <5aj93j$mbi@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: Why we WORSHIP Newton
Date: 3 Jan 1997 15:37:23 GMT
In article <32CC1CB6.40B5@rim.net> Kent Knickerson
wrote:
>> (Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
>> You math are not LAWS but simply elaborate descriptions
of
>> OBSERVATIONS! Please! They work until they don't work,
>
> Yeah. "Laws" are postulates that stand the test of
time.
> They are not intrinsically sacred.
>
> Newton replaced a dreadful hodgepodge of Ptolemaic
epicycles.
> They are consistent.
> Kent Nickerson <knickerson@rim.net>
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
You've just contradicted yourself again. This is not church. It's
OK to challenge the gods you worship. You won't burn in hell
except that the other children might ostracize you. Is this what
you fear?
(End ZetaTalk[TM])