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From: g-rh@cca.UUCP (Richard Harter)
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Subject: Wombats and epistomology
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Date: Thu, 12-Jan-84 07:20:55 EST
Article-I.D.: cca.6459
Posted: Thu Jan 12 07:20:55 1984
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	The bad news on Wombats is that it can be proved that they do
not exist, to wit:

Either Christianity is the true religion or is not.  Suppose that it is
not.  Then we must settle the question of the existence of wombats by
reason based on the evidence of our senses.  I have never seen a wombat.
Ergo, they do not exist.  Conversely, suppose that Christianity is the
true religion.  Then all truth is contained in the Bible (the final 
authoritative word of God on all subjects.)  However the Bible does
not mention wombats; hence they do not exist.  Q.E.D.

I trust that this meets the high standards for intellectual rigor of
submissions to the net.

				Richard Harter