From: markp@elvis.wri.com (Mark Pundurs)
Subject: Re: After 2000 years, can we say that Christian Morality is
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In <930415.112243.8v6.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:

>There's no objective physics; Einstein and Bohr have told us that.

Speaking as one who knows relativity and quantum mechanics, I say: 
Bullshit.

>There's no objective reality.  LSD should be sufficient to prove that.

Speaking as one who has taken LSD, I say: 
Bullshit.

>> One wonders just what people who ask such questions understand by the term 
>> "objective", if anything.

>I consider it to be a useful fiction; an abstract ideal we can strive
>towards.  Like an ideal gas or a light inextensible string, it doesn't
>actually exist; but we can talk about things as if they were like it, and not
>be too far wrong.

How could striving toward an ideal be in any way useful, if the ideal 
had no objective existence?
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