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- From: skillian@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Seth James Killian)
- Subject: Re: Gandalph Exists. Proof within.
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:18:55 GMT
- Keywords: Lord of the Rings
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- While you may have found a hole in the overly ambitious
- "Gandalf exists", you seem hesitant to respond to the basic theme
- of his objection. I will see if I can make it as clear as possible:
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- 1) I, Seth James Killian, was logged onto the net at 4:03 AM on
- January the 24th.
- 2) I have attended the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana
- since the fall of 1992.
- 3) I was born on June the 7th, 1974.
- etc...
- N) I claim that God, in any sense or possibly implied meaning,
- does not exist.
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- The first three facts are certainly as, if not more,
- verifiable than any biblical happenings. I could concievably
- write a list of equally verifiable (or at least, shall we say,
- non-false) claims about my own life, or any set of events that
- I so chose. Within this volume of largely provable occurences,
- I could include the fact that I had a hamburger for lunch yesterday,
- when in fact, I had fish. Given the passage of several thousand
- years, this fact could certainly escape the possibility of refutation.
- I could also include the postulate that God does not exist. By your
- argument, and given the current society's ability to retain information, my book (while being infinitely less interesting) would be a better
- standard by which to decide upon the existence or lack thereof of a
- God. Your thought was an interesting one, but this strikes me as
- a rather unforgivable hole. Maybe I'll just write that book up and
- post to alt.atheism just to put an end to all that thoughtless
- God bashing... :)
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- Seth Killian
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