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China does not exist
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RE: China does not exist
The argument goes like this, "If you believe in only things that you can touch and see, how can you believe Australia Exists?" Basically to prop up the idea that a materialist ideology is insufficient in asserting the existence of a country you've never been to. However it's a fallacious argument because you can assert Australia (or in this case, China) exists because we can see maps of Australia, we can call someone in Australia, we can meet people from Australia, etc... The same idea applies to God in the sense that if he is real and exerts some type of influence on the reality we see, we could test it and come to a conclusion, but that's not the case.

As I've said many times before, if God is a transcendant being that does not influence this world, then why worship? If he does, then we should be able to substantially test for it.
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin

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China does not exist - by Watson - March 1, 2010 at 8:01 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Shell B - March 1, 2010 at 8:19 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Watson - March 1, 2010 at 8:21 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Tiberius - March 1, 2010 at 8:23 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Watson - March 1, 2010 at 8:25 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Tiberius - March 1, 2010 at 8:35 pm
RE: China does not exist - by AtheistPhil - March 1, 2010 at 8:35 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Watson - March 1, 2010 at 8:38 pm
RE: China does not exist - by AtheistPhil - March 1, 2010 at 8:44 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Watson - March 1, 2010 at 8:46 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Tiberius - March 1, 2010 at 8:50 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Watson - March 1, 2010 at 8:52 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Tiberius - March 1, 2010 at 8:57 pm
RE: China does not exist - by AtheistPhil - March 1, 2010 at 8:53 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Eilonnwy - March 1, 2010 at 8:55 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Watson - March 1, 2010 at 8:56 pm
RE: China does not exist - by padraic - March 2, 2010 at 6:04 am
RE: China does not exist - by AtheistPhil - March 1, 2010 at 8:57 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Eilonnwy - March 1, 2010 at 9:03 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Tiberius - March 1, 2010 at 9:04 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Violet - March 1, 2010 at 10:19 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Eilonnwy - March 2, 2010 at 10:56 am
RE: China does not exist - by Tiberius - March 2, 2010 at 2:37 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Watson - March 1, 2010 at 9:05 pm
RE: China does not exist - by AtheistPhil - March 1, 2010 at 9:11 pm
RE: China does not exist - by theblindferrengi - March 1, 2010 at 9:24 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Minimalist - March 1, 2010 at 9:55 pm
RE: China does not exist - by KichigaiNeko - March 2, 2010 at 11:06 am
RE: China does not exist - by Eilonnwy - March 2, 2010 at 11:11 am
RE: China does not exist - by KichigaiNeko - March 2, 2010 at 11:25 am
RE: China does not exist - by Eilonnwy - March 2, 2010 at 12:12 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Watson - March 2, 2010 at 12:55 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Eilonnwy - March 2, 2010 at 1:41 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Watson - March 2, 2010 at 2:03 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Eilonnwy - March 3, 2010 at 10:30 am
RE: China does not exist - by Rhizomorph13 - March 2, 2010 at 12:57 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Watson - March 2, 2010 at 12:58 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Rhizomorph13 - March 2, 2010 at 1:27 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Xyster - March 2, 2010 at 1:47 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Eilonnwy - March 2, 2010 at 3:24 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Tiberius - March 2, 2010 at 8:48 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Eilonnwy - March 3, 2010 at 10:22 am
RE: China does not exist - by Welsh cake - March 2, 2010 at 4:00 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Violet - March 2, 2010 at 8:21 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Ace Otana - March 2, 2010 at 8:52 pm
RE: China does not exist - by tavarish - March 2, 2010 at 10:43 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Violet - March 2, 2010 at 11:40 pm
RE: China does not exist - by tavarish - March 3, 2010 at 10:27 am
RE: China does not exist - by Rhizomorph13 - March 3, 2010 at 12:52 pm
RE: China does not exist - by LukeMC - March 3, 2010 at 1:52 pm
RE: China does not exist - by downbeatplumb - March 6, 2010 at 12:46 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Tiberius - March 6, 2010 at 12:50 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Violet - March 6, 2010 at 3:29 pm
RE: China does not exist - by Edwardo Piet - March 7, 2010 at 6:23 am

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