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From: mvalley@jack.sns.com (Michael Valley)
Subject: Re: See me, hear me, feel me, touch me.
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Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 22:16:01 GMT
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Ade The Shade (adrian@abarnett.demon.co.uk) wrote:
:  One is my name...the other is not. <web44583q239@daffy.millersv.edu> wrote:
:  >Anyway, though (pardon if I tend to be a little disorganized...) a person would
:  >ask me to prove there is a God.  Who do you know there is a God.  I would also
:  >ask, can you prove there is such a thing as magnatism?

: Well, you could go and buy a "magnat", and an iron nail. Bring the
: two together and see what happens. Does this help?

This really does not PROVE magnetism. How do you know that magnetism caused
the magnet to attract the iron nail? Maybe it was an invisible elf that
brought the two together? I think this is what the original poster tried to 
touch on... You can see the effects of magnetism, but can you see magnetism?

Mike

