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- From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Would you believe anyway ???
- Message-ID: <L0HFuB1w165w@kalki33>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 04:44:56 EST
- References: <FZF=sw@engin.umich.edu>
- Reply-To: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- ingles@engin.umich.edu (Ray Ingles) writes:
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- > >> .>A list of demands and a threat. Yep, that's really "reaching out to God
- > >> .>with a desire to know Him" all right.
- > >
- > >> Not demands, but a set of conditions by which God could provide rather goo
- > >> evidence for his existence.
- > >
- > >Nope. Demands.
- >
- > Nopre, a set of requests with justifications. What's wrong with the
- > justifications? Or will you say, "Nope. They're just wrong."
-
- Nope. Demands.
-
- >
- > >> Not a threat, but a statement of what seems to be a perfectly legitimate
- > >> interpretation of a null result.
- > >
- > >Nope. A threat.
- >
- > How is that going to hurt a God? Besides, does one 'threaten' an experiment
- > with disbelief if you get a null result?
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- Threats. Just more threats.
-
- >
- > >> Besides, like many others, I've gone through the sincere questing and come
- > >> up empty.
- > >
- > >It is not possible that your quest was both sincere and unsuccessful.
- >
- > You are free to believe that everyone who sys that is lying, I guess. I've
- > talked to too many people who say that to think that they are *all* lying.
- > Besides, it's unfalsifiable. You quest. Either... a) you find, in which
- > case God exists, or... b) you don't find, in which case you weren't really
- > questing, and God still exists.
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- We never said you were lying.
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
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