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- From: zell@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph Zell)
- Subject: Re: God exists. Proof within.
- Message-ID: <C1DGov.Ft0@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <C18LIF.9pJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <C194Mx.4Iu@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan22.113235.991@ugle.unit.no> <1993Jan22.223654.7050@mks.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:57:52 GMT
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- hugh@mks.com (Hugh Brown) writes:
- >I suggest that people who talk about a god have in mind an all-powerful,
- >all-knowing supernatural being who created the universe. Now if that
- >is the point of departure, then the refutations are obvious.
- >1. The universe is everything that is.
- > Something that created the universe is not in the universe.
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- Says who? If you create a house, were you never in the house to create it,
- or can you never enter the house?
- > Something that is not in the universe does not exist.
- > THerefore, God does not exist.
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- There's a hole in your proof.
- Joe
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- Joe Zell * "I knew Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was my
- zell@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu * friend..."
- * -Ronald Reagan, 1992 GOP convention speech
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