on 8/1/03 12:23 am, Deborah Harrell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> --- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Reggie Bautista wrote:
>> 
>>>>> Of *course* God exists.
>>>>> Haven't you ever heard of Mulder's Razor?
>>> 
>>> William T. Goodall replied:
>>>> It was proved otherwise last year on this list.
>>> 
>>> As I recall, that proof was refuted.  O Jeroen,
>> master of the archives?
>> 
>> It wasn't refuted. It was objected to, and protested
>> at, and even disbelieved - but not refuted.
> 
> As I recall, it was refuted in the sense that it is
> not possible to prove or disprove, like the QM theory
> that a/new universe(s) is/are created each second.
> 
> Question: why is it so important to attempt "proof"
> one way or the other?  Belief in the Divine is Faith.
> 
> Heretic Lutheran Deist Maru  ;)

But that argument, and its relatives, can be used to 'refute' any argument
about anything. So it doesn't count. I mean that is just the argument that
we can't know anything about anything because the nature of reality might be
that a Descartian demon is reprogramming our memory every second. That is
just silly.

In the real world nobody refuted the argument.

-- 
William T Goodall
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- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949


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