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From: "Stewart, Peter" <>
Subject: RE: G?el, Einstein and theology
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 10:16:26 +1000


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> Subject: Re: G?el, Einstein and theology
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> In a message dated 07/02/2001 12:56:51 AM Central Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
>
> > it's news to me that the 20th-century
> > public was ever quite stupid enough to believe & repeat this
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I am never surprised at the gullibility of religious
> people trying to "prove" their own mythology.

If religious people had command over public myth-making & spreading, we
would all still be living in a medieval culture: even in Iran nowadays the
attempt is coming unstuck. The common attitude to Einstein's contribution,
such as it was, to ontological debate is probably that he helped to make it
seem irrelevant.

Peter Stewart

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