On Feb 23, 10:39*pm, "Martin R. Howell"
wrote:

Quoting palsing:
HA! Best reply of the year...

YMMV. However, I doubt that Oriel is posting here for the _frisson_,
let alone in such an... explicit... fashion. I believe he is sincere
in his view that astronomy has gone the wrong way.

And since this "wrong way" appears to be that we have chosen to leave
God out of our thinking, thus going along with the atheisic celestial
mechanics of Laplace, indeed you won't reach him with vulgarities -
they will only confirm his belief in his superiority, moral and
otherwise, over the rest of the world.

John Savard