Thanks Uluc.  In related news, I'm no longer an atheist.  Sam Harris just 
changed my mind about this.  Or perhaps put into words a conclusion I 
gradually came to over the past couple years:

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/sam_harris/2007/10/the_prob...
atheism.html

This reminds me of Steve Levitt's bewilderment at the recent spate of 
anti-God books (Dennett, Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, Paulos, Stenger) [1]. 
It's like writing a book called "Why Bird-Watching is a Waste of Time".
Who would buy that book?  It's not going to dissuade bird watchers and 
everyone else already agrees and doesn't need to read a book about it!

(I think Levitt is wrong but I found that hilarious.)

Danny


[1] By the way, all of those authors (except Stenger; he sounds good too, 
from reviews, but I don't know first-hand) are brilliant and really fun to 
read.


> http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_60/iss_8/49_1.shtml
>
> It is titled "Science and the Islamic worldThe quest for rapprochement" by 
> Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy in the department of physics at Quaid-i-Azam 
> University in Islamabad, Pakistan.

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http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves  - -  search://"Daniel Reeves"

A computer, to print out a fact,
Will divide, multiply, and subtract.
	 But this output can be
	 No more than debris,
If the input was short of exact.
		 -- Gigo