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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: God exists. Proof within.
- Message-ID: <1jnvqnINN1am@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 05:13:59 GMT
- References: <C17y16.Jt6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <PMETZGER.93Jan21215810@snark.shearson.com>
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- In article <PMETZGER.93Jan21215810@snark.shearson.com>, pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:
- >
- > Second, your argument could be used just as easily to demonstrate that
- > God doesn't exist, you know. I could simply go out and write up a book
- > of thousands of demonstrably correct facts and include in the list the
- > assertion "God does not exist", and by your argument I would therefore
- > be obligated to disbelieve in God.
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- Another example: if all the phone numbers listed in the telephone
- book turn out to be correct, what does that say about the advertisements?
-
- Answer: nothing.
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- jon.
-