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From: Louann Miller <louann_m@yahoo.net>
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Subject: Re: Hello T.O.
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:08:36 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:05:07 +0000 (UTC), psychotech@xpoint.at
(H,R.Gruemm) wrote:
>*Everything* is consistent with an Earth, universe etc. which has been
>created by your God 10,000 years ago, including evidence of a past
>which had never existed. But it is also consistent with creation by my
>cat, last Thursday. So why not go the whole hog ?
>
>Of course, Christians generally claim that their God is not a
>deceiving trickster *). But you know how cats are .... ;)
>
>*) So why did he put in unmistakeable evidence of a supernova which
>happened 167,000 years ago, and Greenland ice cores which go back over
>100,000 years ?
Possible answer: "it was a trap, so that smart-alecks who think too
much will go to Hell and not contaminate the good folk who only do as
they're told." I like to hope that this would be rejected on the
grounds that such a Deity would be too nasty to worship. But I
sometimes wonder.
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