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To: Virginia-American

It's an untestable superfluous assumption.

How is it superfluous?

668 posted on 09/28/2006 4:49:27 PM PDT by Tribune7

To: Tribune7

[the Deist version of God]

How is it superfluous?

If a hypothesis has no testable consequences, it is superfluous. Assuming its truth doesn't change anything (else it would be testable).

More less by definition a Deist deity is unobservable and untestable.

671 posted on 09/28/2006 5:14:17 PM PDT by Virginia-American (What do you call an honest creationist? An evolutionist.)

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