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To: average joe who wrote (21898)3/3/2012 2:40:23 PM
From: Giordano Bruno  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
>The chief premise of the Dawkins case then was that we should never believe in anything (viz the existence of God) for which we do not have factual evidence. So I asked him if he believed that it was wrong to hurt people unnecessarily. And, of course, he replied that he did. I then asked him what his evidence was for that belief: a question to which there can be no answer because beliefs of this kind are not based on “evidence”.

Isn't pain, itself, enough evidence?
Dissecting doctrines can get pretty dopey.



To: average joe who wrote (21898)3/3/2012 4:11:15 PM
From: Solon1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 



Janet Daley is American-born, but has lived in Britain since 1965.

I'm impressed...