In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207191741190.19602-100000 at localhost.localdomain> "H. McDaniel" <mcdaniel at localhost.localdomain> writes:
<On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Cary Kittrell wrote:
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<> In article <3uvgjuonsjfssbkomc76cuph2b3codv994 at 4ax.com> Bob LeChevalier <lojbab at lojban.org> writes:
<> <JDay123 at BellSouth.com (Jd) wrote:
<> <>In alt.education Re: brain sizes: Einstein's and women's,
<> <>Bob LeChevalier wrote...
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<> <>>Is Gideon's test repeatable by others? If it is not, then it is not science.
<> <>
<> <>It would be up to God whether or not a fleece you put out on the
<> <>lawn one night would have dew on it the next morning or not.
<> <
<> <If it is "up to God", then it is not science. You cannot test it (God
<> <specifically has warned against our attempting to test God; see Job)
<>
<> And a lovely story that warning makes, too. God whacks Job, afflicts
<> him greivously, even killing his kids and servants and livestock, all
<> to win a bar bet with Satan. But noble Job perseveres, and in the
<> end God restores him all he's lost.
<>
<> Of course the children and the servants and the animals are still
<> dead. I wonder if they learned something important from all this.
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<Hmm. In the biblical context you don't really have a point because
<God killed a lot of people before and after that and never hid the
<fact.
Your honor, we rest our case.
If they learned a lesson it was something they should've already
<known: you can die any time.
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<-McDaniel
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-- cary
