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Re: Problems with Christianity and Darwinism
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:55:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
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> > > Prove you can. Supposedly you only see God when you die - that's not a
> > > physical visit.
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> > No no, you changed it around. You said "You can't visit God physically".
> > Back that up. With replicatable evidence. James wasn't suggesting that you
> > CAN, he was asking why he should believe you that you CAN'T.
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> Just so we're on the same page here, you're asking Tom to prove that you
> can't do something, which in this case is impossible for him to do because
> there will always be a case of "yeah, but what if..." It is far more
> reasonable for a skeptic to ask you to prove that one *can* visit God
> physically, since one such visit, if experimentally repeatable, would prove
> it possible.
No. He's not asking Tom to prove that something can't be done. He's asking
Tom to support his assertion that something can't be done. HUGE difference.
James
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| (...) You're quibbling. In that case, Tom might begin, for instance, by asserting either that God does not exist, or that God does exist, but he exists in a place physically inaccessible to us. In either case we cannot physically travel to God. Now, (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Problems with Christianity and Darwinism
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| (...) Just so we're on the same page here, you're asking Tom to prove that you can't do something, which in this case is impossible for him to do because there will always be a case of "yeah, but what if..." It is far more reasonable for a skeptic (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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