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Re: An atheist professor & his student

by Louis Epstein <le@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Oct 13, 2008 at 12:41 AM

hanson_mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
: On Oct 12, 1:45?pm, Louis Epstein <l...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
:> :> You have to remember that God is more-dimensional than the material
:> :> universe and transcends all its properties.The limitations we seem
:> :> to see can't apply to God.
:> :
:> : Well, now you're making three more assertions, but they are
:> : unnecessary. The correct answer to the question, "How did the
universe
:> : come into being?" is "I don't know." You can fill in the terra
:> : incognita with fictional geography if you wish to - a
poly-dimensional
:> : transcendent god, perhaps - but you need to be clear that it is a
:> : product of your mind and not something that logic demands.
:>
:> Logic defines God as the ultimate reason the universe came into being.
:> The terra incognita can not be nonexistent if the existence of any
:> terra cognita is to be explained.
:>
:> You can know nothing about God,but you can't defend a position that
:> anything could exist unless there were that unknown God.
: 
: I have already defended that position, and successfully so. You simply
: didn't notice.

The "success" was self-delusion on your part.

 So let's try again:
: 
:> : The correct answer to the question, "How did the universe
:> : come into being?" is "I don't know." You can fill in the terra
:> : incognita with fictional geography if you wish to - a
poly-dimensional
:> : transcendent god, perhaps, or even "infinitely first cause" - but you
need to be clear that it is a
:> : product of your mind and not something that logic demands.

Once again,this argument fails for reasons I stated.

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
 




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Re: An atheist professor & his student
hanson_mike@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-10-12 04:58:22 
Re: An atheist professor & his student
Louis Epstein <le@[EMA  2008-10-13 00:41:20 

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