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> >From: TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [email protected]
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sat Yuga Fairy Tale? was: Forcing
people to
> >meditate, wa
> >Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:48:27 -0000
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> >--- In [email protected], "Richard Hughes"
> ><richardhughes103@> wrote:
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> > > Why ascribe divine presence to something that doesn't
> > > need it? I think it's much more amazing to think of
> > > life as having started from nowhere and reaching this
> > > level of complexity unaided.
> > >
> > > Isn't it enough to know that a garden's beautiful
> > > without thinking there's fairies at the bottom of
> > > it as well?
> >
> >Well said, dude. I've grown so used to being
> >surrounded by theists here that it's really
> >refreshing to hear from someone who can even
> >*conceive* of a universe that doesn't require
> >a deity, and the fact that it would essentially
> >be more interesting than a universe that did
> >have one.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Shame I'm going away for long weekend and won't know if we've got
> any converts, perhaps everyone can wait for a week or talk about
> something else 'til I get back?
I just wrote a long response to your most recent
post to me, but Yahoo ate it. I'll try to put
it together again for when you return.
FWIW, I'm not a theist. Actually what I described
that Barry is trashing here is deism, not theism.
But I'm not even a deist; I was just presenting the
deist view as a more abstract and science-compatible
alternative to the Creationism notion of a
micromanaging deity, which is in conflict with science.
Again Barry's confusing "This theory says..." with "What
this theory says is true!" He doesn't seem able to
conceive of describing a theory or belief without
necessarily believing in it oneself.
And for those keeping score, this is the third post
of mine Barry has trashed after having sworn three days
ago to avoid "commenting on subjects that even a
paranoid obsessive might think were about her
personally."
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