Re: · · · Have You Heard The Good News? · · ·
From: David C. Ullrich (ullrich_at_math.okstate.edu)
Date: 01/30/05
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:09:39 -0600
On 30 Jan 2005 18:32:00 +0200, Phil Carmody
<thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>"Tonico" <Tonicopm@yahoo.com> writes:
>[SNIP - over 100 lines of some kook's garbage, reproduced in full]
>> I'm an idiot wasting precious space in the group.
>
>IFYPFY.
>
>
>> Idiot
>> Tonio
>
>Great way to sign off a post. At least you're honest.
>
>HTH, HAND,
>Phil
>--
>If a religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable
>statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it
>is the only religion that can prove itself to be one. -- John Barrow
What a silly point. Who ever defined a religion that way?
No, if a religion were defined as a system of ideas whose adherents
were convinced that they _knew_ that certain unprovable statements
were _true_ that would be different.
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