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  1. Newsgroups: alt.philosophy.objectivism
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!crash!mdc
  3. From: mdc@crash.cts.com (Milo D. Cooper)
  4. Subject: Re: God doesn't exist
  5. Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
  6. Date: 25 Jan 93 22:53:10 PST
  7. Message-ID: <1993Jan25.225310.29640@crash>
  8. References: <C1E910.Izv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan25.101937.18534@netcom.com> <C1FqD7.Hos@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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  11. In article <C1FqD7.Hos@news.cso.uiuc.edu> gambit@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
  12. =
  13. =The fact that every entity does not require a cause is obvious, because the
  14. =Universe (if we take it to be the totality of existence) obviously did not
  15. =have a cause.  There could be nothing to cause existence, because it would
  16. =have to exist itself.
  17. =
  18. =Benjamin W. Lagow
  19.  
  20.     How is it, then, that from such a nihilistic origin of life
  21. emerged conscious life aware of its past, and thus concerned with its
  22. future?  Logic is subject to the dictates of experience.
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  24.                          _m d c_
  25.               Milo D. Cooper  '92   | 1992  |  mdc@crash.cts.com
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