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Daniel Dennett
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RE: Daniel Dennett
(November 20, 2009 at 2:33 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Well that would be a particularly warped way of looking at it, but of course you know that very well. Point stands, God is a coherent concept.

I tend to agree with you fr0d0 - a deity is one in a long list of utterly unproven causes of origin, a concept, where as Santa is a character.

Now, when we narrow the deistic focus to Yahweh we are faced with a different problem - we have not just an unproven concept of origins, but a provably wrong one. We have a character in a book, just like santa.
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Daniel Dennett - by 1129banks - November 19, 2009 at 1:18 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by Pope Alfred - November 19, 2009 at 3:05 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by fr0d0 - November 19, 2009 at 6:00 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by Autumnlicious - November 20, 2009 at 8:05 am
RE: Daniel Dennett - by Edwardo Piet - November 22, 2009 at 10:48 am
RE: Daniel Dennett - by Samson - November 19, 2009 at 10:17 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by fr0d0 - November 20, 2009 at 2:33 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by downbeatplumb - November 21, 2009 at 2:01 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by Samson - November 21, 2009 at 2:48 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by fr0d0 - November 21, 2009 at 3:38 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by theVOID - November 22, 2009 at 6:56 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by Minimalist - November 21, 2009 at 3:12 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by amw79 - November 21, 2009 at 4:46 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by fr0d0 - November 22, 2009 at 11:33 am
RE: Daniel Dennett - by Edwardo Piet - November 29, 2009 at 4:50 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by fr0d0 - November 22, 2009 at 7:01 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 5:22 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by Edwardo Piet - November 29, 2009 at 5:23 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 5:51 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by Edwardo Piet - November 29, 2009 at 6:07 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 6:33 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by Edwardo Piet - November 29, 2009 at 6:44 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 6:48 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by Edwardo Piet - November 29, 2009 at 6:50 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by fr0d0 - November 29, 2009 at 6:55 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by Edwardo Piet - November 29, 2009 at 6:55 pm
RE: Daniel Dennett - by macskeptic - December 3, 2009 at 3:16 am

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