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Old 13-July-2004, 06:26 PM
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Everybody else is doing it, so... :wink:
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Originally Posted by beskeptical
The idea you can never prove it one way or the other, to me, is just a rhetorical way of dancing around a sticky subject. With the correct choice of criteria, we can test the 'theory' of a god just as we can test the theory of quantum mechanics.
You can test parts of some religious beliefs, like, say, the world flood, or the age of the Earth. But then believers can always tell you that those mythological details are not essential to their doctrine; that the moral and spiritual teachings are the most important part of the message.
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