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- From: werdna@cco.caltech.edu (Andrew Tong)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Deliberate Ignorance
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:37:27 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- johnsd2@vccnw07.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman Johnson) writes:
- >On the other hand, if God is a being that is Omnibenevolent, Omnipotent,
- >Omniscient, and did all that stuff the Bible sez he did, then he doesn't
- >exist. That's logic (proof by contradiction that is- some of the stuff
- >in the bible isn't very nice.)
-
- Are you really claiming that the God of the Bible is logically inconsistent?
-
- Because if you do, the the following:
- >If God should come down in a Second Coming type thing and explain real
- >well why he is late that would be pretty good proof that he exists too.
- >But it's not nearly as much fun to reason about as Spam.
- Could simply never happen..... I'm sortof confused. Do you believe God
- (as described in the bible) doesn't exist because the biblical account of
- God is logically contradictory, or are you saying that God doesn't exist
- because no proof is ever provided for His existence.
-
- I find the former argument immensely interesting. The latter argument is
- somewhat bland and quite boring--it's an end unto itself. (You could always
- assert it, but you simply can't get much more out of it than a simple
- refutation....)
-
- >Absolutely. We refuse to behave as if it God existed without proof,
- >because this seems unreasonable to us. Acting "as if God might or might
- >not exist" is tough.. what does it mean if not one of the first two?
-
- Seems that you're holding onto the latter argument. Damn. I thought this
- was going to get interesting. Too bad. Seems like some atheists (like many
- theists/christians) can't play more than just a few notes....
-
- >Parle vous frances? :)
-
- Apparently, you don't spell it... (Correct spelling: Parlez-vous francais?)
- :-)
-