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Babbage on God, Creation and Miracles

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Babbage on God, Creation and Miracles

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n=Infinity
Sum n = -1/12
n=1

where n are natural numbers.
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Do you agree with the treatise, more or less? Section 4 argues for an old Earth. What are your thoughts on that?
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In truth, the mass of evidence which combines to prove the great antiquity of the earth itself, is so irresistible, and so unshaken by any opposing facts, that none but those who are alike incapable of observing the facts, and of appreciating the reasoning, can for a moment conceive the present state of its surface to have been the result of only six thousand years of existence.
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Heretic!!!! :-D
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