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Author Topic:   If it can be, how can the "Absence of Evidence" be "Evidence of Absence?".
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Message 66 of 309 (534413)
11-07-2009 11:07 PM
Reply to: Message 64 by Peg
11-07-2009 9:52 PM


Order must be governed, and if true so is deception
Peg writes:
if the laws deviated and showed a chaotic variations, then it would be impossible for us to fly to the moon for instance
Or perform radiometric dating that shows the earth is 4.54 billion years old.
Or show through genetic analysis that all life is related.
Or show through a general uniformitarianism in geology that there has been no global flood for at least 600 million years.
Or estimate the age of the universe at 13.7 billion years through the background radiation.
Or show that life has evolved through the fossil record.
and so on.....
Why not drop the other shoe? Either your God does it using science or your god is ultimately the great deceiver.
Think about it.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen

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