Big Bang?

[malignd at aol.com]

<<Sorry to have to correct you again, but it certainly meant something 
to Charles Darwin: >>

It meant nothing to Darwin's science.  Which is the point.

-----Original Message-----
From: jbor at bigpond.com
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:04:15 +1000
Subject: Re: Big Bang?

   On 04/10/2005, at 2:32 PM, David Casseres wrote: 
 
 > I guess it's "agnosticism," but that's a category 
 > invented by deists. It means nothing to science. 
 
  Sorry to have to correct you again, but it certainly meant something 
to Charles Darwin: 
 
  [...] In 1879 a letter came asking if he believed in God, and if 
theism and evolution were compatible. He replied that a man "can be an 
ardent Theist and an evolutionist", citing Charles Kingsley and Asa 
Gray as examples, and for himself, he had "never been an Atheist in the 
sense of denying the existence of a God". He added that "I think that 
generally (and more and more as I grow older), but not always, that an 
Agnostic would be a more correct description of my state of mind." 
[...] 
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin%27s_views_on_religion 
 
 Interesting information, well worth a look. 
 
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