Re: Evidence for "Big Bang Theory"

China (hilary@gladstone.uoregon.edu)
Mon, 1 May 1995 17:53:15 -0700

> >>>> OK, I'll bite. What's the difference between nature and God?
> >>>
> >>>One is a human invention?
> >>>
> >>
> >>Great repost! I love it!
> >>
> >
> > Yes quite remarkable isn't it. Here we have an astronomer coming out
> > to proclaim Nature as a human invention, while God reigns eternal.
> >
> > Or is he? Hard to tell, one way or the other . . .
>
> Whooooooooosh! (In case you haven't caught on, you missed it.
> Apparenly went right over your head).
>
>
> For the intellectually impaired, the implication was that god was a
> human invention. Do you get it now?
>
I don't think anyone missed it. Our friend, once removed, was
deliberatly misunderstanding -- I think. Its exactly what I would have
said, and I understood.

It was a cute answer, but a little too easy. Neither God nor nature are
that simple.