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- From: D.J.Butcher@newcastle.ac.uk (Dave Butcher)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Arguments for the existence of God
- Message-ID: <C1Gv64.MB3@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:03:40 GMT
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- ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN-
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- If a god is Omnipotent why does he/she need to design a Universe with coherent
- physical laws. It would require infinitesimal effort to `force` things to
- happen the way he wants them to.
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- FIRST CAUSE ARGUMENT-
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- The supposed period before the universe was created is a non-time non-space not
- subject to normal laws, there is no way to properly assess the requirements of
- ability of the being that supposedly created the universe.
-
- The BOLLOX Paradigm-
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- (All percentages approximate)
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- Any argument presented to the net has a greater than 50% chance of being wrong.
- There is also a 50% chance of any argument you post that is right being
- incorrectly proved wrong, and you believing it (Assuming you have an open mind).
- There is also a 50% chance that any remaining arguments are misleadingly or
- ambigously phrased, and will come back to haunt you.
- There is a further 50% chance that any remaining arguments irrelevant to the
- context being discussed.
-
- There is a 99.8% chance that a word in your post is mispelled.
- There is a 100% chance that a word in your post looks mispelled to someone
- taught a different spelling.
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- Definition of an Open Mind
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- Someone who is willing to be proved wrong, discover that the proof was incorrect,
- and then ready to change their mind back again, who then discovers that what they
- thought was a fallacy in the orginal disproof was actually not, and that they were
- wrong when they found it, consequently changing their mind back again, who still
- feels no embarrasment, because they know, (even if they are still wrong) at least
- they are thinking it through.
-
- DB.
- Nb.- Witty Quote goes here.
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- D.Butcher@ncl.ac.uk
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