Alfredo asks:

> >Of course, that definition of a miracle makes the designation of miracle
>  >wholly dependent upon the ignorance of the observer.
>
>  Richard Feynman was always in awe of his "expanding frontier of ignorance".
>
>  Are you using "ignorance of the observer" as an insult or as a
>  compliment?

One person wrote me privately that the definition of a miracle depended not
so much on the ignorance of the observer but on his gullibility.

Of course, all of this is a little off-track, under any circumstance. What
Arthur C. Clarke really said was that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic'."

Wirt Atmar

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