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If God Ever Stopped Intervening In Nature....

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Message 15 of 708 (704767)
08-16-2013 1:46 PM 		Reply to: Message 14 by Straggler
08-16-2013 12:53 PM

Re: A Question To Theists
Straggler writes:
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What would the difference be betwen a world in whcih God is present and one in which God is now absent?
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Australia would beat us at cricket.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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Message 25 of 708 (704941)
08-20-2013 6:02 PM 		Reply to: Message 23 by shadow71
08-20-2013 5:30 PM

Re: If God Ever Stopped Intervening In Nature....
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In his book "Thoughts in Solitude" Thomas Merton writes at page 45 when discussing the spiritual life;
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"It is the silence of our whole being in compunction and adoration before God in the habitual realization that He is everything and we are nothing, that He is the Center to which all things tend, and to Whom all our actions must be directed. That our life and strength proceed from Him, that both in life and in death we depend entirely on Him, that the whole course of our life is foreknown by Him and falls into the plan of His wise and merciful Providence;..."
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And in his book "Thoughts on Peculiar Religious Drivel" Tangle writes on page 1, "what Thomas Merton says is all bollox".
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So the situation is finely balanced.
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Message 75 of 708 (711318)
11-17-2013 11:11 AM 		Reply to: Message 72 by Phat
11-16-2013 4:15 PM

Re: Evidence is Evident
While you're waiting for Ringo....
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Phat writes:
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Do ideas exist without humans to think them up?
For instance, does science exist without humans to complete the tests and verification?
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No
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If all humans agreed on reality, would reality conform to humanity
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No
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Message 464 of 708 (737413)
09-23-2014 2:19 PM

Are you guys still having fun?
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"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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