Re: Atheists support evolution because evolution supports their
- From: chris thompson <chris.linthompson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:34:22 -0700 (PDT)
On Oct 10, 7:59 pm, "Suzanne" <shil...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Mike Painter" <mddotpain...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Suzanne wrote:
<snip>
If I told you about baobab trees and you had never
seen one and no one you know ever wrote about
them or photographed them or saw them but me,
you would not believe me. But if I told you now
that the baobab tree supplied us with kapok for
pillows, would you believe that if you never heard
of kapok?
True, especially if it came from you.
However it would be possible to find proof for the existence of the tree
with little effort.
Further if you asked 10,000 people about the tree you would not get 10,000
different descriptions and stories about it.
If you could provide any evidence for your god that was 1/10th of the
evidence for the existence of the tree there would be no atheists.
Evidence, evidence, evidence. You live by evidence.
Life just doesn't always give you the luxury of having
evidence. Suppose someone said to you, (perish the
thought!) "Don't move!! It's important that you listen
to me and don't bat an eyelash. There is a snake by your
foot. I'll distract it, and when I tell you to, then move."
Sometimes you have to trust people.
Suzanne
Is there any reason to think this is one of those times?
Chris
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