[aclug-L] Re: Linux and Creationism...

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Hall wrote:
> 
> "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin,
> president, Royal Society, 1895.

Kelvin was also famous for one of the first serious scientific efforts
to estimate the age of the earth. Only off by a factor of 45 (maybe a
bit more if Jonathan's theories gain currency).

BTW, I've long thought that the most insidious creationism theory was
the one posited by Douglas Adams in his Hitchhiker's books. Science
depends on the analysis of facts, but what happens if the facts are
fake? Adams' earth is a computer built to find the ultimate question,
which implies that understanding its preprogrammed facts is necessary
to fulfill its mission. So even if the facts are faked, the logic
unveiled in making sense of the facts is worth the trouble of creating
the earth in the first place.

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