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To: Heartlander
Respectfully, I have not met an athiest yet (and I've met plenty) who has not admitted to me that he/she chooses non-belief in order to avoid having any "rules" imposed upon them. This isn't true athiesm, but avoidance of accountability to anyone but yourself.

I seriously don't understand how anyone could look at the universe, the makeup of the body, even the structure of a flower and believe it all just "happened". These things just are too complex to have formed out of nothing.

Flame away.

8 posted on 11/22/2004 8:41:46 AM PST by I'm ALL Right! (Savor...)
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To: I'm ALL Right!

I agree with you.

Amoral narcisism has been the main root of atheism from the beginning of civilization; thats why most nations executed them.


9 posted on 11/22/2004 8:59:47 AM PST by JFK_Lib
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To: I'm ALL Right!
I seriously don't understand how anyone could look at the universe, the makeup of the body, even the structure of a flower and believe it all just "happened". These things just are too complex to have formed out of nothing.

I find that those who believe that such things "formed out of nothing" or no more or less credible that those who have no explanation for a being who created such things.

In other words, to ask "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is equivalent to asking "Why is there God rather than no God?"

Interposing God does nothing to explain the mystery of existence. It just pushes the discussion back a half step to question why there is a God at all.
17 posted on 11/23/2004 3:32:44 PM PST by BikerNYC
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