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Antares 531 wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:15:08 -0700, ben_dolan_III@reet.com (Ben Dolan)
> wrote:
> 
>> Antares 531 <gordonlrDELETE@swbell.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>> When I lived in Florida a few years back, I arrived home one evening
>>>>> just after sundown and saw a very large alligator slithering across
>>>>> our front lawn. I was afraid to get close to the beast but after it
>>>>> began moving away I parked the car and went inside to tell my wife
>>>>> about this alligator.
>>>>>
>>>>> We both came back out to look at the beast but it was gone and we
>>>>> could find no trace of it. I had ample "evidence" that an alligator
>>>>> had slithered across our front lawn, but I could not transfer this
>>>>> evidence. My wife could either reject my claim or accept it on faith.
>>>>>
>>>> As you said, a claim, but not evidence.
>>>>
>>> There was evidence for me, but no transferable evidence. My point was
>>> that there can be, and often is evidence that isn't transferable.
>> But there's plenty of evidence that alligators live in Florida, isn't
>> there? So your claim is completely reasonable based on considerable
>> supporting evidence. If your claim was that the baby Jesus had slithered
>> across your front lawn, then that would be a different matter
>> altogether, now wouldn't it?  Believing you saw an alligator on your
>> lawn isn't purely a matter of faith, but believing you saw Jesus would
>> be (and Florida being a hotbed of religulous nutcases, I'm sure someone
>> has made such a claim at some point.) Do you understand the difference?
>>
>> Give it a rest, Gordon, we've heard this particular line of argument
>> countless times before. You're not covering any new ground, and you
>> still haven't addressed the basic issue: there is no evidence for the
>> existence of supernatural gods of any sort--reptilian or otherwise.
>>
> Ben, there is an ABUNDANCE of evidence that God exists, 

Which God though?