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Arthur C. Clarke's 'Credo'.
From:
Skeptical Inquirer
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September 1, 2001| Author:
Clarke, Arthur C.
| COPYRIGHT 2001 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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People have debated the problems of existence for thousands of years--and that is precisely why we should be skeptical of the answers. One of the great lessons of modern science is that millennia are only moments. It is not likely that ultimate questions will be settled in such short periods of time.
For thousands of years the subtlest minds of the human species have been focused on the great questions of life and death, of time and space--and of man's place in the unive...
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