[Phys-L] Re: Finally the secularists strike back

[trappe at PHYSICS.UTEXAS.EDU (Karl Trappe)]

Look at Tony Auth's other cartoon in the Editorial cartoons (1st one).  Talk
about the irony...check out the notice posted at the church door.  I think I'll
send it to my minister, who recognizes the difficulty of reconciling science
and religion.

Quoting "Strickert, Rick" <rstrickert@SIGNATURESCIENCE.COM>:

> http://www.ucomics.com/tonyauth/2005/08/04/
>
> The cartoon is somewhat ironic in that:
>
> 1. Isaac Newton was a practicing alchemist.
> 2. Copernicus and other early astronomers, even into the 17th century
> earned their living providing to their patrons (today called funding
> agencies) astrological predictions upgraded with their newest
> astronomical discoveries.
> 3. It was Einstein who claimed "God does not play dice", to which Niels
> Bohr reportedly responded, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do."
> 4. In the early 20th century, phrenology was a tool of scientists
> studying evolution and anthropology.
>
> Rick Strickert
> Austin, TX