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Article #14026Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: Richard Meredith
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:20
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:20
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In article <756f4c42-5fd6-4c63-97c5-de4cf9bdb17f@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, rbwinn3@juno.com (rbwinn) wrote: > *From:* rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com> > *Date:* Fri, 4 Jul 2008 19:54:27 -0700 (PDT) > > On Jul 4, 11:49_am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote: > > Richard Meredith wrote: > > > In article <g4lbtl$9p...@cam-news1.cambridge.arm.com>, > > > chris.sh...@arm.nospam.com (Chris Shore) wrote: > > > > >> *From:* "Chris Shore" <chris.sh...@arm.nospam.com> > > >> *Date:* Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:25:57 +0100 > > > > >> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message > > > > > >>news:b5ef084b-b578-47aa-b9bf-1285e1588579@27g2000hsf.googlegroups.co > m. > > >> .. > > > > >>> Well, there is an earthen ramp that the Assyrian army built to > > get > > >>> over the city wall at Lachish. _Atheists do not believe in the > > >> earthen > > >>> ramp. > > >> Of course atheists believe in the ramp. It exists and its > > existence > > >> cannot > > >> be denied. But the existence of the ramp does not prove that the > > >> entire > > >> OT is fact, nor does it prove anything, anything at all, about > > God. > > > > >> What is your point in pointing out the existence of this thing? > > > > > There is no point. Usenet discussions about religion are seldom > > anything > > > more than an opportunity for all sorts of people to restate their > > > particular set of beliefs loudly and vociferously while paying > > little > > > attention and less respect to the views of anyone else. > > > > Oh come ON, poor old Robbo has been given a test of faith: he has > > to go > > up against satanic atheists and all sorts of sinners to test his > > beliefs. We have to at least give him a run for his money. > > > > He is obviously fairly deluded. > > > > Its just a way of passing the time..- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > Actually I was discussing the Galilean transformation equations with > scientists before atheists started posting to me in > sci.physics.relativity. Atheists, theists - what's the difference? They're both equally dogmatic that what they happen to believe is the one and only version of the truth, despite a complete inability to prove it - or even put up a decent set of repeatable and verifiable evidence that supports their position.
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X-Google-Thread: 10b271,d932fee6d9806ab9 X-Google-Thread: 102f53,dac8026861d35fee X-Google-Thread: f442a,d932fee6d9806ab9 X-Google-Thread: 116469,d932fee6d9806ab9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,gid102f53,gidf442a,gid116469,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists? From: richard@rmeredith.co.uk (Richard Meredith) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:20 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <memo.20080705132051.308B@rmeredith.compulink.co.uk> References: <756f4c42-5fd6-4c63-97c5-de4cf9bdb17f@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> Lines: 72 NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.146.112.188 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.news-service.com!peernews.merula.net!news.merula.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: sci.physics,cam.misc,alt.sci.physics,alt.atheism X-Trace: news.merula.net 1215260323 217.146.112.188 (5 Jul 2008 13:18:43 0100) Reply-to: richard@rmeredith.co.uk