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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: James Calladine who wrote (14354)	1/10/2003 9:43:42 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) of 28931

If you don't see the logic in the following sentence, I don't know how I can explain it to you: "If measly Carbon-based organisms like ourselves cannot possibly have come into being without the intervention of some higher being, then God must have been created as well" There is no particular logical basis to your IF...THEN construction here. In other words, on what basis do you believe that? What's your proof, etc? Logic does not use proof, Mr Calladine. I think you are confusing it with science, which often uses experiments and observations to check its hypotheses. The logic is quite obvious - If one claims that the very existence of humans on this planet proves the existence of God, since no such order/intelligence/beauty/consciousness/etc could have happened on its own, then we have to assume that God (who is of a higher order/intelligence/beauty/consciousness/etc) could not have come into being on His own and thus must have been created. And the same argument can be made for the Creator of God's Creator, et cetera ad nauseum... This is a classic argument in philosophy. I am amazed you can say "there is no particular logic" in it.

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