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Monday, June 09, 2003
THE SUM TOTAL OF ALL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.
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That's the promise of the Internet, that it will be the sum total of all human knowledge, every library in the world at our fingertips, right? Obviously, it's not there yet, but I just had a great experience of how it could be. I was talking with my brother on the phone, and he said that according to a Rabbi he spoke with, there's no evidence that Cain slew Abel, since Cain denies it to God. That didn't sound right to me, so I went to Google, and entered cain slew abel. The first hit was this page, a seemingly exhaustive collection of six quotes from Genesis (2), Matthew, Luke, Hebrews, and John, supporting the claim (quite convincingly, I think) that, according to the Bible, Cain did indeed slay Abel. It was just like magic, getting the exact answer to what I wanted to know. The shame is that such experiences on the Internet are the exception, rather than the norm.
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