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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
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     Stan Brown  wrote:   
   > On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 19:25:19 +0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:   
   >> Facts are not opinions. Stating opinion as fact is not a matter of   
   >> freedom, it is a matter of ignorance.   
   >>   
      
   > Right -- yet that's exactly what you do when you claim that he non-   
   > existence of the Christian's god is a fact. Mind you, I think their   
   > imaginary friend _is_ imaginary; but I don't delude myself that I   
   > have any proof of it.   
      
   You don't need proof of a negative. Prove invisible pink unicorns don't   
   exist. Go on, try it. You can't. Prove that there is not a 50,000 meter   
   high mountain in London... oh, sorry, you can't. It is meaningless to   
   say "you can't prove ____ doesn't exist." Yes, it's true, you cannot   
   prove that  does not exist, so what?   
      
   Proving it DOES exist, that is the trick.   
      
   Recently, the Higgs-Boson was a theory. It seemed likely that it   
   existed, but there was a definite chance it didn't. It would have turned   
   quantum mechanics on its head if it didn't exist, but it had not been   
   proven to exist, so it was *not* a fact, not until it was shown to   
   actually exist.   
      
      
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   'I cannot! He has been kindness itself to me!' 'And you can be Death   
   itself to him.'   
      
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