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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Krowbar who wrote (1264)	12/27/1996 2:59:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	of 108807

>>As I grew older I saw that the adults didn't really believe the Santa story (most of them), but they still believed the god story. I wondered why. I am now 51. I still wonder why. Well, there's this fellow called Aristotle, who put together five "proofs" of God's existence; actually they are just arguments in favor of God's existence, or of the necessity for God to exist. Thomas Aquinas appropriated these arguments and you can find them in his Summa Theologica. It's been a while since I've read these works, but some of the philosophical arguments for God's existence are the Ontological Argument, the Cosmological Argument, the Moral Argument, the Teleological Argument, First Cause, design, the anthropic principal and probably more. I guess some people believe "the god story" because they find the arguments of pagans like Aristotle and Christians like Aquinas persuasive. Some people even think these two men are among the great intellects in human history. But maybe you have found flaws in their arguments. You ought to publish, it's no small feat to cut holes in Aristotle and Aquinas.

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