Re: Irreducible Complexity - Creationist Claims Debunked

"Smiler" <Smiler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Ben Goren" <ben@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> John W. Wells wrote:
>>
>> > John Smith wrote:
>> >
>> >> **Why would  ANYONE "believe"  in a god  UNLESS there  is valid
>> >> evidence?
>> >
>> > Is that a rhetorical question?
>> >
>> > The answer--mine anyway--is simple.  If I believe in God, and He
>> > assures  me of  everlasting  life, then  I  needn't confront  my
>> > finitude.  (Belonging  to the  most intelligent species  on this
>> > earth, I couldn't help but notice that we're all gonna die)
>> >
>> > Then, too, I  needn't figure out how to behave  amoung my fellow
>> > creatures--morality is predefined for me.
>> >
>> > Nor do  I need  to find  meaning in  this short  span of  life I
>> > have--that's predefined, too.
>>
>> Never mind, of course, that, without evidence, that's nothing more
>> than  wishful thinking. Might  as  well believe  in clapping  your
>> hands to save Tinkerbell.
>>
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> <Fundie>
> Of course that works.
> Have you ever seen a production of Peter Pan where, after clapping, 
> Tinkerbell is NOT saved?
> </Fundie>


"I believe in faeries ...... I saw them on stage in the seedier sections
of 
New York".