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- From: ingles@engin.umich.edu (Ray Ingles)
- Subject: Re: Would you believe anyway ???
- Message-ID: <HvG=_CB@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 13:34:22 EST
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
- References: <FZF=sw@engin.umich.edu> <L0HFuB1w165w@kalki33>
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- Normally I hate people who quote an entire article and give a short response,
- but this case is so illustrative that I had to...
-
- In article <L0HFuB1w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
- >ingles@engin.umich.edu (Ray Ingles) writes:
- >
- >> >> .>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?
- >
- >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.
- >
- >We never said you were lying.
- >
- >Sincerely,
- >Kalki Dasa
-
- Kalki... could you perhaps back up your statements? If you can't back them
- up, could you state that they are your opinions? And, of course, if the
- people who say they sincerely sought but didn't find aren't lying, what
- *is* their problem?
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Ray Ingles || The above opinions are probably
- || not those of the University of
- ingles@engin.umich.edu || Michigan. Yet.
-