(December 13, 2015 at 1:59 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(December 13, 2015 at 11:50 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Je n’avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.
+1 for citation of LaPlace, and in French, no less.
Before any of the rest of you go making fun of Frenchmen, please recall that I am half French (Cajun), and speak the language.
I was going to say the same thing. LaPlace was asked about the place for God in his nebular model presentation to napoleon and he rightly replied with the above, meaning: I have no need for that hypothesis.
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