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- From: jackson@soldev.tti.com (Dick Jackson)
- Subject: Re: Proof of God's Existence
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- In article <Btx5E0.2Kw@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
- >
- > Building on a suggestion communicated in conversation by Hilary Putnam, this
- > article provides a definite answer to a previously disputed question of
- > philosophy by establishing the existence of God. In outline the argument
- > (which the reader may find somewhat familiar) goes as follows: Everything has
- > a cause; therefore there is a First Cause, namely God.
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- I know that you prefaced this quote by saying it was not entirely serious,
- and that the main point of your article lies elsewhere. But if I (as a
- very amateur voyeur of philosophy) make a corresponding argument but
- substitute the string FCA (which might stand for first cause agent) for
- the string God, how would a defender of this argument rebut my claim that
- I have proved the existence of FCA but that FCA has no other properties of
- the entity commonly called by many, but not a majority of people, God.
-
- Dick Jackson
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