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Still vexed by one question

Posted by: MDG on November 18, 1999 at 21:33:10:

In Reply to: Here lies the difference between religion and science. posted by Gideon Hallett on November 17, 1999 at 12:15:44:

In all that you've written, Gideon, you still haven't answered the one question which forces me, practically against my will, to believe in God, and that is, how can something come from nothing? You told me that this was only an assumption on my part, but it (that something cannot come from nothing) seems to me to be a logical assumption.

I know you've written about bubble chambers and antimatter, things about which I only have a Star Trek fan's understanding of, but you know that I responded: where did the antimatter (or any STUFF) originally come from? Spontaneously, from nothing? Again, I ask you if one cannot make a "logical assumption" that something cannot come from nothing, and given this logical assumption, logically deduce that God exists?

I acknowledge that the existence of God is beyond proof. Still (and I may be just stubbornly boneheaded here), I don't see why one cannot accurately say, "The only logical explanation for the origin of the universe is an alogical entity."

I offer you the option of answering, MDG, you're an idiot who knows nothing about logic, in which case I'll quit this topic and move on to new territory.


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