Re: An atheist professor & his student

Welsh Dog <welshdog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:42:07 -0500, Louis Epstein <le@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: wrote:
:>Welsh Dog <welshdog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
:>: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:56:33 -0500, Louis Epstein <le@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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:>: wrote:
:>:>Toon <toon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
:>:>: On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:51:35 -0500, "BubblyBabs"
<ng@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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:>:>: wrote:
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:>:>:>> : There is nodirect evidence to sup****t god.  There is no direct
:>:>:>> : evidence to sup****t the universe came into being without god.
: 
:>:>:>> There is no possibility of there being a Universe unless
:>:>:>> there were a God to cause it.
: 
:>:>:>Why does there need to be a "God" to cause it?  It's just something
that 
:>:>:>happened...  Maybe it's as some speculate - the universe will stop
expanding 
:>:>:>and will collapse in on itself and the process will start over
again... 
:>:>:>Maybe next time there won't be any lifeforms at all on any of the
planets 
:>:>:>that form...  But there doesn't need to be a god for this to
occur...
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:>:>: I think the universe's creation created god, as a way to help run
it.
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:>:>No...God is by definition uniquely uncreated.
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:>: If 'god' can be uniquely uncreated... why shouldn't the universe??
: 
:>Only one entity can be uniquely uncreated
:>and constitute the explanation for the
:>existence of all others.
: 
:>Having this attribute makes that entity God.
: 
:>So are you saying the Universe IS God?
: 
: Can you prove it isn't?
: 
:>Because there MUST be a God for there to be ANYTHING.
: 
: Depends on your perspective! If, as you claim, 'god' was uniquely
: created then there is no reason why the universe couldn't have been
: uniquely created instead *not* as well!
: 
: Besides... it is quite within the bounds of logical possibility for a
: god to have created this universe with its physical laws and yet,
: being outside those laws itself, share existence with a multitude of
: other beings we'd consider to be gods... tho maybe not the god of our
: universe!!
: 
: Welshdog

No,only the reason ALL these "gods" existed would be THE God.

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