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To: js1138
According to your point of view, God knows our each and every ultimate end, so here we are struggling against the inevitable like fish in a barrel, fearful of a fate that is preordained. So what is the point?

No, the question I posed assumed that there was no God, in which case there was no pre-ordained fate. I make the assumuption that the scientist does not believe in God.

976 posted on 07/12/2004 12:51:30 PM PDT by mastequilla
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To: mastequilla
I make the assumption that the scientist does not believe in God.

You make assumptions that have no truth or merit. But the silliest assumption is that a finite life would be better off ended. No sane person thinks that way.

You are engaging in hyper-rationality, a caricature of rationality. In this mode, one might just as easily say the infinite life is meaningless, since any portion of it is an insignificant fraction of the whole. Even a billion years is zero when compared to infinity.

978 posted on 07/12/2004 12:59:23 PM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)
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