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To: Diamond

"The claim of certain ignorance entails a claim of omniscience, which is self-refuting."

No, it's a fact. Right now there is no way to know if a God exists.


367 posted on 12/20/2005 10:07:37 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
Right now there is no way to know if a God exists.

At least for those who have yet to leave this plane of existence. Those who have departed probably know.

449 posted on 12/20/2005 10:34:35 AM PST by Protagoras (Many people teach their children that Jesus is story character but Santa Claus is real.)
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
No, it's a fact. Right now there is no way to know if a God exists.

What percentage of the total available knowledge do you claim to possess? You are claiming absolute certainty of the truth of the proposition that there is not enough knowledge to be able to determine whether or not there is a God. In order to make this claim with certainty you would have had to search throughout the entire universe, because of the possibility that knowledge of God might exist somewhere you haven't looked yet. You cannot possibly search everywhere since you are a finite being. Therefore, unless you are omniscient (or God Himself) you cannot be certain that that there isn't knowledge somewhere that you haven't looked yet. Therefore you cannot be certain that there is no way to know if God exists.

Cordially,

603 posted on 12/20/2005 11:31:09 AM PST by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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