Gavin Clarkson wrote in part:

>So is there a First Church of the Great Stochastic Convergence for the 
>people whose cosmology is based on random chance? 


NOT LIKELY.

Keith Maxwell


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<[log in to unmask]> wrote on 01/06/2007 01:07:14 AM:

>       On a related issue I could use some help.
> 
>       If my memory serves me well (with rounding to the nearest thousand
> years), then there are different religious calculations on the age of
> Creation.  Depending upon the religion in question the universe is 
either
> 6k, 8k, and 12k years old.  Last I looked, science calculate 15B years.
> But, I seem to recall reading that the Hubbell telescope pushed the age 
up

> as high as 17B.
> 
>       However, I am not certain as to those ages or as to which religion
> asserts which of the dates.  Are the three religions Jewish, Jehovah
> Witness, and Mormon?  Are the number of years right?  Is there a 
religion
> at 10k?
> 
>       I always have thought the "real" answer to question depended upon
> what type of god you liked.  A god who displayed awesome power via 
patience
> and/or a god who displayed awesome power in a flash and/or a god who was 
a
> real prankster and/or no god.
> 
>       To have fun in class I do these dates in scientific notation. That
> is,
> 6.0 x 10^3 versus
> 8.0 x 10^3 versus
> 1.2 x 10^4 versus
> 1.5 x 10^9.
> Using scientific notation tends to shut down many knee jerk reactions 
since
> nearly all student have to pause and think so as to recall scientific
> notation.  It also provides an opportunity to discuss scale.
> 
> Michael
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