From: (Nick)
Date: 03/10/03 03:21 GMT Daylight Time
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-rat (Tony D.) wrote in message
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GreenPencil wrote to 'God':
Sorry. But you didn't give me very much to work with.
I'm a skeptic, I think like a scientist.
That's the way you made me, but you probably knew that already, huh?

Watch what you say. Look what I did to Stephen Hawking.

In her 1999 memoir, 'Music to Move the Stars', Jane (nee Wilde) Hawking
(Stephen's first wife), a Christian, wrote that she had warned Stephen
Hawking about his public statements, for instance, with respect to 'being
able to read the mind of God'.

"God winds you up, and you go till He stops you."
--Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)


'Housekeeping ain't no joke.'
--L. M. Alcott (ibid.)

'For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh:
and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things
that ye would.'
--Galatians 5:17

I seem to recall that in his landmark television series: "The Ascent Of Man",
Jacob Bronowski said something to the effect that humans tend to seek mates who
are roughly intellectually compatible with themselves.

If he did say that, and, crucially, if he was right, then Hawking's decision to
marry a Christian (apparently in haste) may go some way towards explaining the
eventual mutual estrangement....

--Mark