From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!gh Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Religous Matters Article-I.D.: brunix.1288 Posted: Sat Jan 22 15:27:27 1983 Received: Mon Jan 24 04:21:00 1983 References: houxj.202,ucbvax.629,ihuxt.156 There is a flaw in L. Welsch's argument that proving the non-existence of God is like proving it for unicorns. This God entity has, it is alleged, certain properties that would make it easy to find if it existed. For example, it is ubiquitous, and if you ask it nicely for something reasonable (to use the technical term, "pray"), you get what you want. Since the world is in quite a mess, a lot of people have recently been asking God, quite reasonably, to help fix matters up. Since they have been quite unsuccessful, it is fair to conclude that our search for God has been complete and unsuccessful. Not afraid to fan the flames Graeme Hirst, Brown University, Computer Science ...!{decvax, vax135, yale-comix, cornell}!brunix!gh