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   From: WRITETOcommoner@carcosa.de   
      
   > > > What scientists can't do, is to start from scratch, create a biological   
   > > > body, and start up it's heart!   
   > > But can *God* do it?   
   > ****** It would seem so, there being 6 billion examples of His work to look   
   > at!   
      
   Too bad that you have no extrabiblical evidence for that claim, no?   
      
   > **** The fact that the greatest scientists, to their utter dismay, can't   
   > breath life into a dead body or create a perfect animal and breath life into   
   > it - is PROOF of a higher intelligence! ****   
      
   Wrong. It's just proof of... well... today's science being unable to do   
   it. In other words: Your claim is a classical non sequitur.   
   And even if you were right... "higher intelligence" != christian gawd   
      
   > ** People who deny that there is a God, are not so convinced that no God   
   > exists, but are using this denial as a crutch to get out of having to comply   
   > with God's Law!**   
      
   The day one, even a single ONE, of you fundies can present   
   extrabiblical proof of your gawd's existence will be the day others   
   just MIGHT start believing this.   
      
   Come on, present proof! As for me, you'd be the very first fundie to be   
   able to do so!   
      
      
      
   --   
   TOP TEN SIGNS YOU'RE A (CHRISTIAN) FUNDAMENTALIST   
      
   10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of   
   gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when   
   someone denies the existence of yours.   
      
   9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists   
   say that people evolved from other life forms, but you   
   have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were   
   created from dirt.   
      
   8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem   
   believing in a Triune God.   
      
   7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the   
   "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even   
   flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all   
   the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the   
   elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" --   
   including women, children, and trees!   
      
   6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and   
   Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have   
   no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated   
   Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed,   
   came back to life and then ascended into the sky.   
      
   5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little   
   loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth   
   (4.55 billion years), but you find nothing wrong with   
   believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting   
   in their tents and guessing that Earth is a couple of   
   generations old.   
      
   4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet   
   with the exception of those who share your beliefs --   
   though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend   
   Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet   
   consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."   
      
   3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and   
   physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot   
   rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be   
   all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.   
      
   2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it   
   comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be   
   evidence that prayer works. And you think that the   
   remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.   
      
   1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and   
   agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church   
   history - but still call yourself a Christian.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)