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   mur to David Johnston   
   Re: More Quiz Questions for Atheists   
   06 Aug 15 22:19:02   
   
   XPost: sac.politics, can.politics, alt.atheism   
   XPost: alt.politics.homosexuality   
      
   On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:07:56 -0600, David Johnston  wrote:   
   .   
   >On 7/31/2015 11:03 AM, mur wrote:   
   >   
   >>> I hadn't thought of it in those terms, but that makes perfect sense,   
   >>> explains the concept quite simply (except to the simple, who are immune   
   >>> to understanding).   
   >>   
   >>      There may be no God associated with Eath. But there may be. You're only   
   >> capable of considering one of those possibilities. I consider the other and   
   >> point out basic things about it for you people, but they are beyond your   
   mental   
   >> ability to consider. Your inability is evidence of God's existence from my   
   POV.   
   >   
   >Wow.  That's remarkably stupid reasoning.   
      
       Wow. Your inability to comprehend how you could be evidence is more   
   evidence   
   of God's existence.   
      
   >>>> Thus Darwin has produced a viable explanantion for how we   
   >>>> got to be the way we are now (how we evolved)  He may have been wrong   
   >>>> in some of the details but basically it is a viable explanation  that   
   >>>> is within the normal workings of nature and more than suffcient to   
   >>>> overturn an extraordinary  claim some god did it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> To continue to insist that some god did it when there is a perfectly   
   >>>> good natural explanation is perverse, stupid and pig-headed   
   >>>   
   >>> And the source of our frustration with the theist trolls.   
   >>   
   >>      One of the basic starting lines you people can't get as "far" as is the   
   >> possiblity that your faith that there's no God associated with Earth is not   
   only   
   >> stupid and pig-headed, but also evidence of God's existence by being   
   evidence of   
   >> Satan's existence and influence on human minds.   
   >   
   >Ah, so Satan is more powerful than God.   
      
       No, that's just evidence that God doesn't always if ever give a shit   
   whether   
   we are more influenced by him or Satan.   
      
   >Good to know.   
      
       You don't know. This is another basic starting line that none of you can   
   get   
   as "far" as.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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