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    Re: Does God Exist? (was Re: Mercy? (was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer)) —Jason J. Railton
   (...) So, here's how I like to see it. If God started everything off, what if He let it play out - what if He wasn't sticking His oar in every five minutes? What if we really do have free will, for a start? Who wants to live in a universe where you (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Does God Exist? (was Re: Mercy? (was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer)) —Ian Warfield
   (...) God reserves the right to engineer events, but He makes sure to allow us to maintain our free will. Anyway it's God's universe; He can do what He wants with it. (...) You have that choice. The tree of knowledge was placed in the Garden of Eden (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Does God Exist? (was Re: Mercy? (was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer)) —Christopher L. Weeks
   (...) You're not getting it. Maybe there were 10^37 (or whatever) universal incarnations that had nothing like us occur. That's fine. You're arguing that a probability that doesn't actually have any bearing on our likelihood, does. I'm sorry, but (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Does God Exist? (was Re: Mercy? (was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer)) —Dave Schuler
   (...) Yes indeed. Another way to approach it is to point out that we (life in general) weren't running around looking for a universe to populate and were lucky enough to find this one; we (again, life in general) arose within this universe because (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Does God Exist? (was Re: Mercy? (was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer)) —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Might that be because you don't play? That's *usually* my reason for not winning, although once in a while (when the expected value (of the net present value of the win after taxes) >100% of the cost to play) it is because the gods don't like (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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