Thread: The existence of God
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Old 20-03-2009, 09:05   #91
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Re: The existence of God
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Originally Posted by TheNorm View Post
To accept something that cannot be tested by logic is foolish - or do you expect everyone to believe there are fairies at the bottom of my garden?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
No, it's faith. You may think that having faith is foolish, but many others do not. Do you not have faith in anything?

I don't believe in God, but I'm not going to turn a theological debate into a logical one, because that's just building a straw man as no one believes that religion is at all logical.

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Originally Posted by mischievious View Post
Since neither can be proven "just yet", your stance is just as tenous as god.
It's really not.

We know that life can exist, we know that we're not at the limit of our scientific abilities, so therefore it's a logical conclusion to say that a civilisation could existed before us, has evolved further than us, and is more scientifically advanced than us, based on the fact that there are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe, and each of them has any number of solar systems, and any number of planets. The law of averages logically states that at least one of them will be home to advanced life, and if they've managed to avoid the numerous extinction events that we've had on this planet (remembering humans only started out 200,000 years ago in a universe billions of years old) then it's not a stretch to say they might have ray guns. Just think where we'll be in just another 1,000 years.
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