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To: OESY
The atheists believe that their five senses can perceive all that there is to perceive...another way of saying "if I cannot perceive it, it cannot exist." Thus is laid bare the arrogance of the atheist: either arrogance, or childishness.
5 posted on 10/06/2003 6:13:07 AM PDT by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: Petronski
The atheists believe that their five senses can perceive all that there is to perceive...another way of saying "if I cannot perceive it, it cannot exist."

Nonsense. I've never "perceived" the core of Pluto but that doesn't mean I don't believe it exists.

17 posted on 10/06/2003 6:41:28 AM PDT by laredo44
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another way of saying "if I cannot perceive it, it cannot exist"

What motivated many rational justifications for the existence of god was, in part, for philosophers to be able to distinguish God from unicorns and fairies and all other sorts of fictions that one could likewise claim to exist, even if one couldn't see them. A distinction would have to be made, which invoked reason and not mere belief.

40 posted on 10/06/2003 7:50:21 AM PDT by Fraulein
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