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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Well elephants is older than turtles (dating back several centuries). Man ... that sentence just sounds wrong .... "elephants is older than turtles"??
The original saying is from a very old Buddhist parable about faith, and why it is futile to argue a point of faith.
And, why would Bertrand Russell be lecturing on astronomy?? He wasn't an astronomer. He wasn't even a scientist. He was a philosopher ... at least he was the last time I read any of his work.
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What? You said the original saying was elephants all the way down and claimed that turtles all the way down was from Discworld. Ask Stephen Hawking about the story about the scientist since it is in his book. The same story was told a bit differently by Russell in the book I read by him. It was in connection with a discussion of religion and more specifically some of Aquinas proofs of Gods existence.