On 22 Mar 2004, at 11:53 pm, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 12:38 PM 3/22/04, William T Goodall wrote:<http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/sciences/story/ 0,12243,1164894,00.html>
"A scientist has calculated that there is a 67% chance that God exists.
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Mr Sharp said William Hill does take bets on the second coming, which currently stand at 1,000/1. For this confirmation is needed from the Archbishop of Canterbury.
You mean the Archbishop has to call Mr Sharp after he gets off the phone after he gets the call from Salt Lake City?
Not really. The terms of the bet state that the Archbishop of Canterbury (head of the official English Church) is the arbiter of the bet. They just don't want any one of ten thousand random cults announcing the second coming and trying to get money.
My response (based on an old joke�) was to the effect of "What if in God's mind the Church of England is just one of ten thousand random cults and He appears first to his true followers?"
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�One morning the Pope calls all the Cardinals and other senior leadership of the RCC into a meeting room in the Vatican and announces "I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I just heard from Our Lord Who announced that He had returned to Earth." After several minutes of excited celebration, someone finally asks "On such a wonderful day, what could possibly be the bad news?" The Pope answers "He said that He was calling from Salt Lake City."
-- Ronn! :)
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