From: "james g. keegan jr." 

In article , flaviaR{at}verizon.net wrote:

> On 22-Mar-2007, "james g. keegan jr."
 wrote:
>
> > In article ,
> >  duke  wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:50:48 -0400, "james g. keegan jr."
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >> >> No one believes you if you don't offer
some substantiation.
> > > >> >then prove the god you claim exists does, in fact, exist.
> > > >> I can't.
> > > >therefore your claim that such a thing exists is proven
to be false.
> > >
> > > What thing?
> >
> > you claimed a thing you call god exists. you could not support your
> > claim. therefore your claim is deemed to be false.
>
> Er, that's not quite right.
> His claim is deemed unproven.
> Slight difference.
> It's also unprovable - I freely admit this, too.

when someone makes a claim in a usenet newsgroup, is called on to support
that claim, and and can not do so, and still refuses to withdraw the claim,
or reframe it as a personal belief rather than a fact, usenet convention
suggests that the claim is false.

so does natural human behavior.

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