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From: tims@mako.UUCP (Tim Stoehr)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: The (non-)existence of God
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Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 13:56:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 13:56:00 1984
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Mr. Norris is incorrect to say that I provided no evidence for the
non-existence of God.  Lack of evidence of existence plus the
classification of the belief in God into the class of simplistic
explanations of the unknown is indeed evidence, but is, by no
means, proof.
If you want absolute proof that God doesn't exist, well, of course,
there is none.  But if you believe in many things that there
is no proof on non-existence, and at the same time there is no
real evidence of existence, then perhaps you believe in alot
of weird things, besides God.  Prove to me that vampires don't
exist.  Show me proof that flying whales don't exist, you can't,
but you don't believe in them either.
The universe is full of mysteries, but to just up and say that
God created it defies all logic.

Anyway, if you assume that God created the universe and life, then
you are assuming the existence of an entity far more complex than
anything within the universe which that entity had the understanding
and the ability to create.  The question I then pose to Mr. Norris
is, who/what created God?