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To: Neocon who wrote (1228)3/5/2002 5:15:31 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
Your insistence that any phenomenon not explicable by currently available knowledge of the natural world must involve a deity really does invoke the image of the norseman huddled in his hut, conjuring up the hammer of Thor to explain the thunder.

Inexplicable things happen every day. All that means is that we have a lot to learn.

If you explain mysterious remissions of disease through divine intervention, you have to explain a deity that chooses to heal some but not others. What do you guess the criteria are? Would you care to explain to the mother of a child dead of disease that her kid wasn't good enough to merit the attentions of the healing divinity?

It is really much kinder to assume that there is a natural cause, as yet unknown. At least we expect nature to be arbitrary. If we do assume a God, it is very hard to assume, on the evidence we see around us, that this God is anything but cruel and uncaring.
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