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From: hua@cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA (Ernest Hua)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: WHY ?!
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Date: Sat, 16-Feb-85 21:11:37 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 16 21:11:37 1985
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First, many thanks to all the responded to my first posting entitled
"Why should YOU believe ..."

Now, I must insist that someone please give me specific reasons for
believing.  It may help you to note that I am often skeptical and I
find it impossible to believe in the supernatural, whether it is
Jupiter or Jesus.  Someone said in a previous article that somethings 
are better explained by using God.  Really?!  Please give me a CONCRETE
example!  (You know who you are, and I am sure that many other readers
feel the same way.)  By the way, please have enough common sense to
distinguish between concrete facts (e.g. c = 3E+8 m/s) and subjective
concepts (e.g. love).  I have seen far too many proofs of God through
arguments like:  "If man can love, he must have been created by/through
loving things.  Therefore, there must have been a First Cause that loves."
For those of you who cannot seen the fallacies in this argument, read
this example:

    Have you ever tried to mix two dyes, one of blue and the other of
    yellow?  Have you ever noticed that the result is green, which is
    neither blue nor yellow.  Technicallity:  You, as the "Creator"
    in this mixing process, are not green either!

Anyway, this is more food for thought ...

Keebler