Oh my God!

 


Recently I watched a video in in which Carl Sagan was asked if he believed in God.

I think asking an astronomer if they believe in God is a bit like asking an astronaut

if they believe in thrust.  His reply was that it really depended on what the asker

meant by God.

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I thought that was an interesting reply, and it made me think of an analogy ,

that the word God, is a bit like -x- in algebra.  If you go along with the idea

that all power comes from God, and that power really means the capacity to

do work ... then you see that the x in algebra, really doesn't mean much until

you actually find out what the x is in that context.  You have to do the work

to find that.

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