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Antares 531 wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:31:58 -0700, ben_dolan_III@reet.com (Ben Dolan)
> wrote:
> 
>> rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You atheists do not hesitate to portray youraelves as experts
>>> concerning what Christians believe. 
>> That's because you Christards are always blathering on about what you
>> believe--without, of course, providing any evidence to support your
>> ridiculous, puerile claims.
>>
> An abundance of evidence exists, but it isn't transferable. Each of us
> has to do our own sleuthing. No one can be your deputy in these
> matters, and supply you with empirical evidence or objective proof.
> You'll have to do your own searching and make your own decisions. If
> the evidence was transferable no one would have a sovereign choice,
> and having a sovereign choice is an absolute requirement. 
> 
> So, the evidence is presented in a very balanced way such that each of
> us can assess it and go from there, making our own sovereign choice as
> to whether we accept or reject God's existence.    Gordon
If only it were that simple.

On the one hand we have an old dusty book.

And the belief's of the faithful.

On the other had we have a mysterious world, which is of course simply 
explained as 'Gods will' but this leads to no sort of predictive 
analysis of it.

Whats constructs you use to explain it, or indeed whether you don't need 
to explain it at all, in order to carry on living, offer a huge range of 
options.

As do pragmatic methods of relating to it.

The Truth is we are all in the dark, brother, and those who think they 
have seen the Light, were probably only blinded momentarily by the 
reflection of the laser beam from their own weapons systems.;-)