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   From: webgiant@rocketmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:22:49 -0800,   
   --sexkitten--   
      
   wrote:   
      
   > Warnock wrote:   
   >   
   >> "--sexkitten--"   
   >>    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>> Then why don't xtians look for   
   >>>>> the truth proactively and/or   
   >>>>> accept the truth when confronted   
   >>>>> with it?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ****** There is, ofcourse, the   
   >>>> unthinkable idea, that your 'truth'   
   >>>> might just be wrong!   
   >>>   
   >>> If it is wrong, why try to hide or   
   >>> deny it?   
   >>   
   >> ****** I'm not hiding or denying   
   >> anything, it's the principlie of   
   >> atheism which might just be wrong!   
   >   
   > So can the principle of theism, and   
   > so far the evidence is not on your   
   > side.   
      
   [snip!]   
      
   >>> Or create life in a lab?   
   >>   
   >> ****** Little chance of that until   
   >> God shows the way!   
   >   
   > Let me see if I've got this   
   > straight....   
   > God is real because scientists can't   
   > create life in a lab, but when   
   > scientists can create life in a lab,   
   > it will be because God is real?   
      
   [with posthumous apologies to Douglas   
    Adams, who was a self-described   
    "radical atheist"]   
      
   ~ Now it is such a bizzarely improbable   
   ~ coincidence that anything so mind-   
   ~ bogglingly useful as creating life in   
   ~ a lab could have been thought up purely   
   ~ by chance that some thinkers have chosen   
   ~ to see it as a final and clinching proof   
   ~ of the non-existence of God.  The   
   ~ argument goes something like this:   
   ~   
   ~ "I refuse to prove that I exist," says   
   ~ God, "for proof denies faith and without   
   ~ faith I am nothing."   
   ~   
   ~ "But," says Man, "scientists creating   
   ~ life in a lab is a dead giveaway, isn't   
   ~ it?  They could not have come up with   
   ~ that by pure chance.  It proves you exist,   
   ~ and so therefore, by your own arguments,   
   ~ you don't.  QED."   
   ~   
   ~ "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought   
   ~ of that," and promptly vanishes in a   
   ~ puff of logic.   
   ~   
   ~ "Oh that was easy," says Man, and for an   
   ~ encore goes on to prove that black is   
   ~ white and gets himself killed at the next   
   ~ zebra crossing.   
      
   Remember, the Bible teaches that genetic   
   alterations can be induced in cattle by   
   allowing your cattle (or in the case of   
   Jacob, someone else's cattle) to see a   
   colored rod (Genesis 30:37-43).  Warnock   
   has clearly been influenced by the Bible   
   claiming that genetic alterations are this   
   easy, and thinks that scientists are sitting   
   in labs showing tiny colored rods to viruses   
   (after first training the viruses to develop   
   eyes).   
      
   According to Warnock, every word of the   
   Bible is true, therefore Warnock thinks   
   that Jacob really did genetically alter   
   cattle by showing them a colored rod!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)