just consider the genome of the platapus.
On May 8, 6:43=A0pm, RichD <r_delaney2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 8, Puppet_Sock <puppet_s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > > > =A0 1) Christ died for your sins.
> > > > =A0 2) If you do not sin, Christ died in vain.
> > > > =A0 3) Get on with it.
>
> > > And don't forget: without the Jooos, =A0Jesus
> > > would have lived to ripe old age, no
> > > crucifixion, no salvation! =A0Thank God
> > > for those cursed rabbis and their plotting!
>
> > You give the Roman Empire insufficient credit.
>
> Pilate had no beef with Jesus, who was a spiritual
> sort - "render unto Caesar..." - it was the rabbis
> who felt threatened, and lobbied for Jesus' execution.
> And so we are saved!
>
> > > > Yahweh is singularly disinterested in human suffering
>
> > > "uninterested"
>
> > Nope. Unc got it right.
> >http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disinterested
>
> That dictionary is questionable. =A0By custom, the
> words are not synonymous.
>
> > > > In the whole of human
> > > > history across the entire planet not one deity has volunteered
> > > > Novocain. =A0It is a telling omission.
>
> > > Why?
>
> > Deities supposedly know how to do a lot of stuff. Novocain is
> > a fairly simple thing to create if you know how.
>
> I don't. =A0How?
>
> > If deities exist (other than as silly fantasies of pathological
> > minds) and if they really are smarter than the humans who
> > made them up, then they should surely know enough to
> > know how to relieve pain. And if they had relieving suffering
> > as part of their motive, they would have done so at some
> > point in history.
>
> > They never did.
>
> > So, either no deity ever had relieving suffering as part of
> > its motive, or no deity ever existed other than as fantasy.
>
> So you concede the possible existence of a Creator,
> who does not interfere in natural events; the blind
> watchmaker. =A0 That is the faitheists' posiition: man
> has free will, to make of this world as we please,
> for good or ill.
>
> --
> Rich
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