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   From: chine.bleu@yahoo.com   
      
   In article ,   
    "5594 Dead, 727 since 1/20/098"  wrote:   
      
   > Of course we don't know.  But if there is an involved god who caused   
   > it and who is posing as a moral and intellectual guide for humanity,   
   > wouldn't he have explained it all to us?   
      
   One Jewish tradition is that god did not finish the universe: it is   
   deliberately   
   incomplete. That is so humans could learn to complete it, and complete it   
   according to humans's own designs, thereby sharing with their creator the act   
   of   
   creation.   
      
   > "Gawd magicked it" may be emotionally reassuring for some, but it is   
   > utterly intellectually sterile.  It isn't an answer; it's a cut off   
   > point at which people are invited to stop considering the matter any   
   > further.   
      
   It depends on what you think is important. Major modern religions don't spend a   
   lot of time explaining the material universe; they spend their time on   
   psychological and spiritual elements of what is a best life.   
      
   > But, lacking any evidence to the contrary, the supposition that some   
   > being with infinite powers did it just strikes me as a lazy shortcut.   
      
   Other people see other things. When I walk around the neighbourhood I stop and   
   smell the roses and jasmine.   
      
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