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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]Gothmatum said:[/b] So, hypothetically speaking, if evidence were uncovered that pointed towards the existence of a creative directive force (to be dubbed 'God' by countless masses), you would consider that there is something more to the story than mere stories? [/quote] That is not a logical progression. The potential existence of such a force, and the huge number of very different stories about different incarnations of what could be said to personify that force, are extremely different things, with gobs of things in between. I don't think it is possible to equate all of the different belief systems closely enough to say that any such 'force' could be equally called 'god' and cover all the bases. If evidence were uncovered, we would have to see where the evidence leads us. That is the way of things ;) [quote] [b]Gothmatum said:[/b] As an aside, I am sure that you file the gospels & epistles of the New Testament as 'stories' rather than 'evidence' despite their being first-hand eyewitness accounts. [/quote] This is a subject worthy of its own thread, and indeed, there are many very long threads here already devoted to it. In short: nonsense. At best, the earliest of the gospels was written 70+ years after the alleged crucifixion. There are countless discrepancies between the various gospels. More importantly: how does a story which claims that there were eyewitnesses relate to there actually being eyewitnesses? This is an argument very often touted by the christian apologists as 'irrefutable evidence'. The story claims that hundreds of people witness an event, so these witnesses, claimed to exist within the story, are somehow evidence that the story is true? Talk about circular references! =) [quote] Which brings me to the subject of "the God hole". Some people have it, some don't; by the same token, some are autistic, some aren't; some are gay, some are bisexual, some are hetero. Is "the God hole" genetic? If so, will the scientific community seek it out to study, catalogue and eliminate it? Is it a learned behavioral hole? If so, will we begin indoctrinating our children against it? What are your opinions? [/quote] Funny you should ask - http://www.ozoneasylum.com/28011 ;) For my personal view, I will leave it at this for now: I don't have a strong opinion as to the origin or nature of such a hole. It is very apparent in many people, as can be seen by simple observation. I refer to it as 'god' related only because god seems to be the subject which makes people very adamantly tell other people that they must also need what they themselves need... As for 'eliminating' such a gene - yikes. Now we're on a different topic altogether. However, as far as 'indoctrinating' against it, that is hardly necessary. All we need to do is to stop indoctrinating our children into religions.... =) [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/163]DL-44[/url] on 12-01-2006 18:15)[/small] Loading...
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