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I Put A Lot Of Effort Into Writing 'a Briefer History' At A Time When I Was Critically Ill With Pneumonia Because I Think That It's Important For Scientists To Explain Their Work, Particularly In Cosmology. This Now Answers Many Questions Once Asked Of Religion.

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I Put A Lot Of Effort Into Writing 'a Briefer History' At A Time When I Was Critically Ill With Pneumonia Because I Think That It's Important For Scientists To Explain Their Work, Particularly In Cosmology. This Now Answers Many Questions Once Asked Of Religion.

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If Any One Of About 40 Physical Qualities Had More Than Slightly Different Values, Life As We Know It Could Not Exist.

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Using E-mail, I Can Communicate With Scientists All Over The World.

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We Got Through All Of Genesis And Part Of Exodus Before I Left. One Of The Main Things I Learned From This Exercise Was Not To Begin A Sentence With "and." When I Pointed Out That Most Sentences In The Bible Began With "and," I Was Told That English Had Changed Since The Time Of King James. In That Case, I Argued, Why Make Us Read The Bible? But It Was In Vain. Robert Graves At That Time Was Very Keen On The Symbolism And Mysticism In The Bible.

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What Was God Doing Before The Divine Creation? Was He Preparing Hell For People Who Asked Such Questions?

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The Meaning In Life Is Not Out There But Inbetween Our Ears. In Many Ways This Makes Us The Lords Of Creation.

I'd Say I Don't Believe In God, But I'm Afraid He Might Hear Me.

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Many People Do Not Like The Idea That Time Has A Beginning, Probably Because It Smacks Of Divine Intervention.

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When I Was First Diagnosed With Als, I Was Given Two Years To Live. Now 45 Years Later, I Am Doing Pretty Well.

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One Can't Predict The Weather More Than A Few Days In Advance.

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Even If There Is Only One Possible Unified Theory, It Is Just A Set Of Rules And Equations. What Is It That Breathes Fire Into The Equations And Makes A Universe For Them To Describe?

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