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To: Diamond

"You already have knowledge of God. God's existence is plainly evident to you. You resist it and attempt to suppress it, but you already have it, and it is implicit in your very replies."

Mystical horse manure. I didn't think you had any objective evidence, and I was right.

"You cannot even get out of the starting gate demanding evidence, or using logic, or rationality, or subjecting God to your scientific tests, believing what you mind tells you is true, or objecting to His existence, etc., without first assuming some standard of truth, the intelligibility of which you take for granted, but which utterly depends on God's existence."

Sure I can. The existence of rationality is not evidence of God. Period.


2,163 posted on 12/22/2005 9:15:01 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
The existence of rationality is not evidence of God.

What is rationality in a purely material universe? How do you account for it? If the sentiments expressed in your posts are nothing but the function of your brain, and your brain nothing but the by-product of irrational physical processes what reason do you have for trusting them? In order for you to think you have to claim for your own reasoning a validity that is not credible if there is nothing beyond the chemical reactions in your head.

Cordially,

2,174 posted on 12/22/2005 9:48:33 AM PST by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
Sure I can. The existence of rationality is not evidence of God. Period.

For the sake of the argument, what if it was? Which god or gods would it be evidence for? And why? And how does that bolster any such argument?

2,186 posted on 12/22/2005 10:12:18 AM PST by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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