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  "thread": {
    "id": 3312,
    "subject": "Quantum Theodynamics",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-06-12T16:34:00+00:00",
    "last": "2002-06-12T16:34:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0206-1222@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-06-12T16:34:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Quantum Theodynamics",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Crush again...\n\n[Lupinity deleted]"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "\"Toying\" is an important word here. Based on the Wolfe answer \nI'm quoting here, I'd say trying to make tBotNS fit with Christian \ntheology in every way (or most ways) is like trying to create a\nperpetual motion machine or trying to rectify general relativity\nwith quantum mechanics: It seems so logical and straightforward,\nbut then...."
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          "text": "Well, yes and no ... among other things, this depends on just what \nChristian theology you're talking about. Catholic theology has, to\nthe best of my knowledge, always begun with with the vital assumption\nthat we do not _and can not_ know the mind of God (Dorothy Sayer's\nexcellent book _The Mind of the Maker_ all to the good). We can \nattempt to (for example) know why God made the world, but that's \nspeculative theology* and not only are its hypotheses considered \nuncertain, it's generally considered dangerous to think of them as \nif they were certain. \n\n-----\n* A term which should ought to be familiar to those who participated\n  in the great Pullman Debate of last year.\n-----\n\nI would say that Wolfe (like Tolkien before him) has generally gone\nout of his way to create a hypothetical universe which, while it may\nnot be explicitly Christian, does not actually _violate_ Christian\ntheology in any irreconcilable way.\n\nwho (huh!) who wrote the book of the new sun?"
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