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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (17005)	4/7/2004 4:50:35 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." DAVID HUME (1711-1776) I guess we can throw this statement in the fire. It fails it's own test.

To: Greg or e who wrote (17005)	4/7/2004 4:55:32 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

The so-called natural forces of matter, such as gravitation, are properly speaking the effect of God's acting on matter at every moment. The implication of this is that the so-called 'course of nature' is a fiction; what we discern as the course of nature is nothing else than God's will, producing certain effects in a continual and uniform manner. Thus, a miracle is not against the course of nature, which really does not exist, except only insofar as it is an unusual event which God does. If the universe is just God's thought, then it is basicly equivalent to saying it does not exist. The universe would then be only what it happened to be at that time, and subject to being something else completely at the next whim of God.