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

To: LLCF who wrote (24484)	7/9/2006 7:07:33 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

"This board is hardly where I'd take "my ideas" to test them for truthfulness" There are no tests here for truthfulness. I think that is a matter for your own conscience. A matter of character, really. _______________________ I was thinking about intelligent design today. Here is a thought experiment: If we knew (somehow) that there was a Designer of the universe...is there even one significant fact that we could extrapolate from that knowledge? None that I can think of. We still wouldn't know (acknowledgment to Steven Dutch) that... The Designer has infinite powers The Designer made use of supernatural methods The Designer has any moral or ethical dimensions The Designer is concerned with the Universe The Designer is concerned with or even aware of human beings The Designer communicates with human beings There exists a reliable record of any such communications Some particular document is actually that record Any religion has an accurate picture of the Designer Any religion interprets the record of communications truthfully Some particular sect is actually that religion