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- From: lmh@iago.caltech.edu (Henling, Lawrence M.)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Throop/Nietzsche problems
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 23:46 PDT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- In article <182@fedfil.UUCP}, news@fedfil.UUCP (news) aka ted holden writes...
- }
- }
- }lesser known fact that new studies are revealing that the spiritual
- }realm which most normal people believe in and can sense, once existed at
- }least in part on this earth. At present we cannot perceive this other
- }realm directly or with our senses, and a goodly number of people have
- }
- We "cannot perceive this other realm ... with our senses", that is,
- "the spiritual realm which most normal people .... can sense."
- Can ted sense or perceieve his own nonsense?
-
- }following consideration. Suppose evolutionists are right, that man is
- }simply a freak accident, the final end product of a long chain of events
- }governed by random and chance processes, originating with single-celled
- }creatures somehow self-generating from inert/inorganic materials which
- }somehow simply got lucky. Then basically, you're saying to the common
- }man, "Abandon hope! You're going to die in thirty or forty years, and
- Why should man abandon hope? Given ted's odds against, I would think
- he is on quite a roll.
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- }
- }See what I mean? Throop just doesn't get it. The fact that man's
- }entire existence becomes utterly meaningless under this system does not
- }even strike him as a problem. Kind of like somebody standing there
-
- So ted needs meaning in his life and therefore god must exist. Why
- won't more religious people admit the true reason for their beliefs?
-
- larry henling lmh@shakes.caltech.edu
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