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   From: me@nothere.biz   
      
   On 20-September-2014 6:37 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:   
   > On 19/09/2014 7:21 AM, mur@.not. wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:54:14 +1000, Sylvia Else   
   >>    
   >> wrote:   
   >> .   
   >>> On 14/09/2014 1:57 AM, mur@.not. wrote:   
   >>>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:14:54 -0400, Olrik  wrote:   
   >>>> .   
   >>>>> Le 2014-09-10 14:47, mur@.not. a écrit :   
   >>>>>> Would they be able to post at all?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> What lies?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> All of them. Of course the biggest is that there's no evidence for   
   >>>> God's   
   >>>> existence, when if there really was no evidence there would be   
   >>>> nothing for   
   >>>> anyone to believe in.   
   >>>   
   >>> The alternative possibility is that people believe despite the absence   
   >>> of evidence.   
   >>>   
   >>> As an argument for the existence of God, it really doesn't work. It   
   >>> just   
   >>> leaves open the question of why people believe.   
   >>   
   >> If there really was no evidence there would be nothing for them to   
   >> believe.   
   >   
   > If you believe that, I'm forced to ask you what the evidence is for it?   
   >   
   > Generally, all that's required is to conceive of something to believe,   
   > and then believe it. Evidence is an optional extra.   
      
   but then there is also belief 'caused' by evidence   
      
   >   
   > Sylvia.   
   >   
      
      
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