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sarfatti@ix.netcom.com (Jack Sarfatti) writes:

>Van you have bitten off more than you can chew and are out of your 
>depth. If you will only do the honest scholarly thing and carefully read 
>what Penrose is talking about you will see that your above remark is a 
>good example of Francis Bacon's warning that a little bit of knowledge 
>is a dangerous thing. You are as wrong as wrong can be in spouting 
>common cliches of the conventional wisdom. You are way out of date man. 
>Read Penrose and see what the actual debate is about before you spout 
>off pompously half-cocked. You're a smart fellow. Do your homework! :-)

I utterly agree.  But it's a little *learning* that's a dangerous
thing --- and I think you'll find it is Alexander Pope's `Essay on
Criticism' that you are (mis)quoting:

	A little learning is a dangerous thing;
	Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
	There shallow drafts intoxicate the brain,
	And drinking largely sobers us again.

I think --- but it's from memory.  I think Francis Bacon may have said
``He that talketh what he knoweth, will also talk what he knoweth
not''.  How apt! :-)

... John
-- 
"
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Virgil)
[approx] Tr: The time may come when we will look back on these days and laugh
"
