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- From: jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Richard Lamb)
- Subject: Re: LAST POST!
- References: <C1AL1t.3HL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan23.233823.27809@athena.mit.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:21:59 GMT
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- cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
-
- >well, thanks for putting something interesting in the newsgroup,
- >but frankly, i was quite disappointed with your arguments. your position
- >has many serious holes in it, and i can't seriously believe that
- >you actually think you have answered them sufficiently.
-
- >the fallacy of equating truth with non-falsehood (which you use
- >indirectly, though you don't come right out and say it)
- >is so fundamental that any high school logic student
- >can demonstrate it. the fallacy of assuming that
- >because much of a book is true that all of it is, is probably worse --
- >it doesn't even pass the muster of common sense.
-
- >if you can actually make an argument like this, and still think
- >after reading all the counter-arguments that your "proof" is valid,
- >well, that must be the best way i could think of of demonstrating
- >that belief in God requires faith -- because that is the only way
- >an intelligent person could stand by your arguments.
-
- >thanks for your efforts though.
-
- Couldn't let me get away without taking a cheap shot? Ok. I'll let you
- get away with it this time. :-) Remember it's all in good humor.
-
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