On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:25:26 -0500, Bill M wrote:
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> I challenge god believers to supply ANY objective verifiable evidence
that
> their god actually exists except in their over active imaginations.
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> Who will accept the challenge???
I challenge you to give me a pure gold coin made of silver. I know that
you cannot do it, because the definition of pure gold coin excludes making
it from silver.
Likewise, the definition of God, or any that I have encountered, preclude
"objective, verifiable evidence".
In fact, you cannot even produce objective, verifiable evidence that G.
Bush is the President of the United States. Oh, you can produce newspaper
re****ts, you might even produce the man himself should it happen that he
is at your beck and call. But how will I know this man is indeed the
president? I cannot. A two million man army at his command is
persuasive, but of course, he would have to present all two million of
them to me to REALLY convince me.
Suppose the FBI comes calling and show you their identification. How can
you prove it is genuine FBI identification? You cannot; at best you can
see that it resembles the first one you ever saw. If the FBI published
specifications so as to enable verification, it would also enable
counterfeit.
So, I do not accept your stupid challenge, and I hope you do not accept my
equally stupid challenge to produce a gold coin made out of silver.
Perhaps you are thinking that someone WANTS to convince you of something
that you have set up to be impossible. If God wishes it, then it will
happen; it is not for anyone else to make happen. That is the way it is
with gods. They do what they want, and they do not do what they do not
want to do.
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