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Matt Fitz wrote:
> On Mar 11, 11:05 am, "Dick Adams" > wrote:
> ....
>> Kee-riminently, this is really gettin' complicated around here!
>>
>> (What ever happened to flour, water, salt and leaven, mix it
>> up and bake it?)
>>

> It seems to me people will generally fall into two camps: one is
> content to know that the ingredients will do what is expected of them
> if treated in a proper (practiced) manner; the other has to know "why"
> at a cellular level.
>
> I straddle the line between the two, mostly because other things
> occupy my time such that I must rely on my contentedness to temper my
> thirst for this particular scientific knowledge. That gets me thinking
> about parallels between religion and science in general,....


It makes me think about why I put two socks in the dryer and only one
comes out.

B/