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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.religion,talk.religion,net.origins
Subject: Re: The Cosmological Argument
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Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 02:00:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 15 02:00:31 1986
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Not at all, Gene.  To say "X exists" is to say "Not-X does not exist."  If
all events are simply mathematical potentials, rather than an ordered series
of causally-connected things; that is, if "the universe" is simply a set of
potentials, with no potential excluded; then Not-X also exists.  Therefore,
the entire criterion of "existence" becomes invalid.

If your little mind is still befuddled, feel free to write again, but please
don't strain yourself thinking about it....
-- 
Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot
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