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   Message 212,592 of 213,516   
   David Johnston to mur   
   Re: More Quiz Questions for Atheists   
   06 Aug 15 22:31:21   
   
   XPost: sac.politics, can.politics, alt.atheism   
   XPost: alt.politics.homosexuality   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 8/6/2015 8:19 PM, mur wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   But that sentence right there by the same token is evidence that there   
   are no gods.   
      
   >   
   >>>>> 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.   
      
   Why is that evidence of one thing and not the other?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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