Re: virus: religion

Paul Prestopnik (pjp66259@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:01:33 -0400


this depends on whether you define unknown as the things that we know we don't
know or if we include the things we don't know we don't know.

In the first case both the known and unknown are growing. In the second the known
is growing and the unknown shrinking.

Marie Foster wrote:

> No, I kid you not... The more we think we know... the more mystery we find
> attached to it. The older I get the more I find this personally true. And if
> you read the greatest thinkers closely, you will find they agree with me.
>
> Eric Boyd wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Marie Foster <mfos@ieway.com> wrote:
> > > It is the unknown that grows. The known only gets smaller.
> >
> > What? Surly you got it backwards by mistake. The known is getting bigger,
> > and getting bigger ever faster even! The unknown, of course, is
> > *infinite*, and so I'm not sure it even make sense to say that it's
> > "getting smaller" or "is growing". How much is infinity plus 2?
> >
> > ERiC
>
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