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From: al669@torfree.net (Mark A.J. McDonnell)
Subject: Re: BABY KILLING JESUS!!!
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 05:32:22 GMT
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Robert Wiegand (wiegand@woodcock.cig.mot.com) wrote:

[MOST OF PRIOR POSTING DELETED]

: >come from?"  "I don't know."  Sure, you can try to find out, but there will
: >be something else after that you then won't know.  

: The problem is that at this point the "God" you are arguing for is so
: simple that it really isn't even interesting. There is nothing to indicate
: that this "God" is even aware of what it did, much less that it cares.
: This isn't anything like what people mean when they normally talk about God.
: This certainly *isn't* the Christian idea of God.

: You will need to produce a much better argument than this if you want
: to convince someone that the Christian God exists.

	Another flaw to the "reductionist" argument had been hinted at in 
the recent cosmological work of Professor Stephen Hawking. According to 
his most recent ideas, it may not be necessary for the Universe to have 
had a beginning at all, as commonly thought of. To apply the spirit of 
one of his quotes (no pun intended): What room is left for God if He is 
not required to create a Universe?


		- Deacon

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