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Old 05-12-2007, 01:51 PM
David Sklansky David Sklansky is offline
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Default Can We All Agree With These \"Facts\" About God?

That if there is a god who created the universe, he did it in a way that things can hum along smoothly without his direct intervention. He had to incite the big bang, write the laws of physics, perhaps create the double helix, and (most importantly) add the spark of self awareness to human beings.

But the rest pretty much PREDICTABLY runs by itself. He is not usually micromanaging and his "middle managers" are the laws of physics themselves.

Thus the only question is how often he intervenes to override his middle managers. I think we can all agree that if he does at all it is incredibly rarely. Furthermore we can hopefully agree that the VAST majority of the time that some people are claiming an event is overriding one of those middle managers, they are wrong. Whether the overriding is supposedly due to God, Satan, or some New Age mysticism. Witnesses are being fooled by magicians, wishful thinking, weird but natural events, perpetuators of frauds, or whatever. We didn't realize this years ago because we didn't have the scientific know how to expose most of those frauds. But now that we can debunk 90% of these claims with certainty, it is reasonable to assume that most if not all of the claims we can't yet debunk are debunkable.

Does anyone here disagree?
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