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Author Topic:   God - a liar?
joz
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Message 3 of 145 (97208)
04-02-2004 5:03 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by funkman
04-02-2004 3:33 PM


I use it occasionally (as an arguement against YEC rather than God) the way I structure it is this...
1)The Universe appears to be billions of years old.
2)For God to create a universe with apparent age is an act of deception (akin for example to the folks who "antique" objects and sell them on e-bay as genuine artifacts).
3)A good God would not decieve us.
For the universe to be young with apparent age 3) must be disposed of.
Therefore either;
a)God is a lying sumbitch, or;
b)The universe really is old.
Most YEC's exhibit a bizzare form of cognitive dissonance where they feel that lyings wrong but their perfectly good God is allowed to pull the wool over our eyes at will...
However those who don't just retreat into lala lulu land and actually think about it will hopefully decide that they would rather acknowlede b) than accept a) at which point they are OEC's which while not being ideal I can deal with....

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