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- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Ontological argument...
- Message-ID: <77663@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 08:07:46 GMT
- References: <C17DwB.7wC@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.092649.6404@scubed.com> <1k26nhINNnmr@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1k26nhINNnmr@gap.caltech.edu> werdna@cco.caltech.edu (Andrew Tong) writes:
- >
- >I believe that most statements of the ontological argument for the
- >existence of God claim that the mere fact that we can imagine an entirely
- >perfect being implies that it must exist.
- >
- >Still not very convincing.
-
- I have not yet been convinced that we can, in fact, imagine an
- entirely perfect being. Merely splicing together the words
- "perfect" and "being" does not count in my book. It may be
- that the resulting phrase is no more coherent than "composite
- prime".
-