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Old 30-August-2003, 08:40 PM
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(I never thought that it would be so easy to get someone to waste so much of their time generating such a lame response.)
I thought it possible that Mr. Sevendy actually wanted an anwser. However, my time and effort was not a waste, because somebody who really wants to know will learn something, and that makes it worth it.

But now I will pose a double sided question to the critics.
Suppose you are right and I am wrong. Suppose there is no supreame being with supernatural powers, that all that there is here is some cosmic coincidence, or whatever one would like to call it. If such is the case, what do I have to lose with what you may call a superstitious belief?
Nothing. And what do you gain. Nothing at all.

But on the other hand, what if the Bible is right, and you are wrong? What if there is a life form with abilities we call supernatural, and he used his abilities to perform exactly as the Bible states. And belief in this being will make you imortal at some future time.
If all this is true after all, what do I gain, and what do you lose?
Perhaps a new angle to think about.
But I'm not here to preach. You are free to believe what you want, as am I.

I literally supplied exactly the proof that Don Sevendy requested, and it was still not good enough, nor will it ever be. Both he and Frasier ask for what has already been provided.

Both Frasier, and Don Sevendy also ask for the Bible to supply something which is today unknown, and unproven.
Such information would be mute, because if it's unknown or unproven, then it's still not available by the means which would prove or dis prove it.

And besides, what about information supplied by the Bible thousands of years ago which had since been proven by scientific means. Such as a giant boat high on Mt. Ararat, which just happens to be where the Bible says it landed.
Or carbon dated evidence uncovered in the last hundred years which details a world wide flood some 5,000 or so years ago, which by some amazing coincidence is in the Bible.
Old time prophets knew the world was round many hundreds and even thousands of years before Columbus sailed from Europe.

I'm not using the Bible to fit my belief. I did not write the book. My belief fits the Bible because that is where I found it.

So where does that leave us?
Are we so prideful of a race that we can't believe that there may be someone who is smarter then us?

But then someone tells you that spirital, supernatural beings which humans, have worshiped, or dreaded through out human history use scientific means we do not understand for their exploits, which we call supernatural. But since I said the word supernatural, that makes it mystical, and superstitus, right? Wrong.
What about black holes? Quazers? Pulsars? Supernove? Wormholes? Intersteller travel faster then light?
Those are supernatural as well. Why? Because they are superier to natural laws of physics as we understand them.

As are a universal flood, parting the Red Sea, and creating a human from the elements of the Earth.

What is the difference? Only perceiption. And that some actor is not speaking into a made for TV prop, asking Scotty to beam them up.