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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: God exists. Proof within.
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:23:24 GMT
- References: <C17y16.Jt6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <PMETZGER.93Jan21215810@snark.shearson.com> <C18s77.Cq3@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C18s77.Cq3@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Richard Lamb) writes:
- |> pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:
- |>
- |> >First of all, there are statements in the Bible that are demonstrably
- |> >FALSE, such as the indirect implication at one point that PI is equal
- |> >to exactly three, and the apparent claim that the universe is only
- |> >five thousand years old.
- |>
- |> The implication that pi=3 is a legitimate evaluation for people who are
- |> trying to count before the wide spread understanding of fractions and
- |> decimal points. Let alone the use of such things.
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- What you are doing here is obvious. You are presenting a series
- of arguments that the Bible is a written record of the thoughts and
- speculations of an ancient Middle-Eastern culture.
-
- We know that. That's what many of us here think it is. What
- you havn't done is present any evidence that the Bible has anything
- to do with a putative God.
-
- jon.
-