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To: The Philosopher who wrote (11333)	4/16/2001 2:35:40 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (3) of 82486

You have been exposed for many years to a society that responds to the unknown (to you) stimulus of the existence of God. Do you therefore have a fairly good idea exactly what God is, and do you believe that God exists on the basis of the response of other people to God? A deaf person totally unacquainted with sound but with a modicum of scientific training would very quickly deduce that non-deaf people communicate using patterns of waves produced by organs based in their necks. They might not experience these wave sets as "sound", and they might not describe them as "sound", but they would be able to verify that specific wave-form patterns exist, can be created, and elicit varying responses. The "stimulus" of God is not only unknown to me. Neither I nor anyone else has been able to produce any evidence suggesting that any such stimulus exists at all. Observation of religious patterns and the development of religious belief, on the other hand, suggests strongly that people have created Gods to fill their own needs. This is a very believable idea, and in the absence of any recordable stimulus that could be attributed to a God, it seems the simplest explanation for the social phenomenon we call religion.

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