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RE: Earth - Proof of God?
February 5, 2013 at 1:54 pm
You just demonstrated that you get what I'm saying. To borrow your analogy, the claim that you have a son can be proven by producing him (although we could then go into the whole area of how do you prove that he actually is your son, but that goes beyond the scope of the analogy). Were you to state that you have a son and that his existence is the proof of the claim, without presenting this proof, we would be in exactly the same situation as with the statement "God is proof of God".
In other words, can you present this God as you might your son?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Earth - Proof of God?
February 5, 2013 at 2:18 pm
(February 5, 2013 at 12:38 pm)Drich Wrote: God is proof of God.
I would agree with you that the physical presence of a god that was testable by science would indeed constitute proof of god. however as no proof of god exists I must conclude that neither does god.
First though you must thoroughly define god which no one has ever managed to pull off.
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RE: Earth - Proof of God?
February 5, 2013 at 3:00 pm
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Done and done. Let the kudos-feast begin.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Earth - Proof of God?
February 5, 2013 at 3:20 pm
Oh, come on. This guy isn't even a GOOD poe.
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RE: Earth - Proof of God?
February 5, 2013 at 3:36 pm
Am I naive in believing that Christian is not a poe, but simply a very gullible, misinformed theist?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell