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Bart Goddard

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From: Bart Goddard <goddar...@netscape.net>

Date: 16 May 2008 15:24:55 GMT

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Timothy Murphy <gayle...@eircom.net> wrote in
news:EhhXj.25459$j7.469397@news.indigo.ie:

> José Carlos Santos wrote:

>> On 16-05-2008 13:45, michaelmross wrote:

>>> I'm pleased to hear about this letter. Einstein is usually portrayed
>>> as being sympathetic with the "god notion". And, of course, he's
>>> always quoted for saying "god doesn't play dice with the universe"
>>> that strongly indicates a belief in a deity.

>> And don't forget "Science without religion is lame. Religion without
>> science is blind." or "God is subtle but he is not malicious."

> Also, after hearing Yehudi Menuhin (aged 15 or so)
> playing Bach's unaccompanied violin sonatas in Paris,
> "So God does exist after all".

Which is why Bach is called "The Fifth Evangelist."

--
Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.

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