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echo: r_catholic
to: stumper
from: Ray Fischer
date: 2007-03-25 22:17:34
subject: Re: Does the universe prefer life?

From: rfischer{at}sonic.net (Ray Fischer)

stumper   wrote:
>Ray Fischer wrote:
>> stumper   wrote:
>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>> stumper   wrote:
>>>>> Attila < wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:04:09 -0400, stumper
 in
>>>>>> alt.abortion with message-id
>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>>>>>> stumper   wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Not all things in the world are physical.
>>>>>>>> Wrong.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Many things are way beyond our comprehension.
>>>>>>>> Obviously true.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> God might be be one of them.
>>>>>>>> But probably not.  Especially since you
don't even know what
>>>>>>>> you mean by the term "God".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> God might not be not something
>>>>>>>>> to be proved or even understood.
>>>>>>>> The race is not always to the swift nor
the battle to the strong
>>>>>>>> but that's the way to bet.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What if God is the universe and some more?
>>>>>>> How do we prove that the universe exists?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What if God is everything there ever was,
>>>>>>> ever is, and ever will be?
>>>>>>> How do we prove that such God exists?
>>>>>> What if none of that is true?
>>>>> It's just a hypothesis.
>>>>> So, such God exists by definition.
>>>> Logical fallacy: Assuming the conclusion.
>>> What makes you think you exist?
>>
>> 1st Meditations.
>
>What makes you think the universe exists?

I don't care if it exists, wanker.  It's a useful working hypothesis to
assume that it does.

--
Ray Fischer
rfischer{at}sonic.net

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