[UA] What Do You Beleive?

[Andrew]

Thursday, June 14, 2001, 12:23:13 AM, Epoch wrote:

E> Hard-core atheism of the sort I usually see here in California is,
E> similarly, an axiomatic belief system which is, hopefully, not
E> contradicted by anything in real life.  So, you choose some axioms, like
E> "Physics makes the world work," and, presuming that you don't see anything
E> in the world which contradicts your view, you go along happily.

A small, but vital, point is that when something in real life
contradicts physics, they change physics.  And they consciously go
looking for things which contradict physics, or things which are
unclear in physics, in order to make physics more closely modelled on
real life.

Andy D
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When there appears to be no hope; when all around you are screaming like lost souls and every spell you try fails to work; when it appears that chaos and evil will at last triumph over good -- then it is truly time for a vacation.


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