Re: GOD'S EXISTENCE more options Author: Steve Keppel-Jones author profile Email: stevekj@bnr.ca Date: 1998/08/05 view thread Forums: alt.fan.publius, sci.skeptic, nz.soc.religion, alt.atheism more headers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [When we last saw them, the Masked Iguana and his faithful sidekick Ferret Boy were trundling across the countryside in their new Pubemobile, sans Auto-Mozumderizer.] Ferret Boy : Wait a minute, what's this ? [He reaches across the dashboard, momentarily obscuring Publius' vision, with the result that the Pubemobile swerves violently] In article <6pvima$j0m@dakota.gate.net>, Publius wrote: > I first posted on the Internet in January 1994 and in the interim I >touched on the subject of "God's Existence" many times. Ferret Boy : Thank God for that! Speaking of God: God, is your driving ever atrocious. > Now I'd like to >formalize my position Ferret Boy : Preferably on the right side of the road, please. > with the presentation of my 'scientific' basis for >the existence of "God". Ferret Boy : But isn't that just playing into the Evil Atheists' (hack, hack, cough, spit) hands? > I understand it is still the current 'scientific' belief or theory >that "Life" began as the result of a fortuitous chemical accident or -as >Hawking put it - the result of a "chance interaction of atoms". In this >theory there is no need or room for the existence of "Life" elsewhere >in our Universe. Ferret Boy : But all we need to do is find "Life" where the Evil Atheists are. I think there's a backup tracking device in here somewhere. [peers at the bewildering array of controls and readouts on the dashboard] > (Notice, I said "our" Universe Ferret Boy : Good, because we don't have any way to travel to other Universes in our Pubemobile. We left the Universal Gateway back in the PubeFort. >since I see no scientific >basis for rejecting the possibility of the existence of other Universes.) Ferret Boy : What if the Evil Atheists are hiding out in another Universe? > Essential to my position is the postulate that "Life" DOES exist >elsewhere. Ferret Boy : But where? > In this I am on safe ground, scientifically. Ferret Boy : Yes, but you're not on very safe ground, geologically. Look at those volcanoes over there... and is that a fault line I see? > I have as much >right to believe that as the Mechanists to their belief that "Life" either >does not exist elsewhere, or if it does it is a matter of no significance. Ferret Boy : I hope those volcanoes are of no significance too... > We know that "Life" is a hierarchical system here on Earth, Ferret Boy : That's right. There's us, and beneath us are the Evil Atheists (hack, hack, cough, spit)! Right, Publius? > so >it is reasonable to assume that "Life" operates in a hierarchical system >and in rankings of unimaginable possibilities, capabilities and >attributes in our Universe and countless other Universes in Infinite >Space. Ferret Boy : Do we have to search all of Infinite Space to find the Evil Atheists? Or can we... hey! Here's the backup tracking device controls. [He switches on the device.] > I violate no 'scientific' imperatives if then I project the Ferret Boy : ...Vector pointing to the Evil Atheists' hideout onto the windshield? Sure, no problem. Here you go. [adjusts another dial] Does that help? > "Ultimate >Configuration of Life", Ferret Boy : No, it's just the Evil Atheists. It looks like they're about 35 degrees North of our current vector at a range of about 300 miles... [pulls out the PubeMap, fumbles with it for a bit] That puts them here, on the Isthmus of Scientia. Take that side road there. Now we just have to scout out their capabilities before we attack. > capable of operating in both Space and Time >and not limited by the confines of what we see as the "Laws of the >Physical Universe". Ferret Boy : Really?!? They're going to be tough opposition then. But I'm sure you'll think of something, right, Publius? > And this is my definition of the word "God". Ferret Boy : Huh ? No, you've got it all backwards. The Evil Atheists aren't "God". > The current Mechanist theory is for Slave Mentalities. I refuse >to confine myself in such a debasing intellectual prison. Ferret Boy : Good. You'll need all of your intellect for this. >PUBLIUS at [Have the Dynamic Duo really managed to locate the Evil Atheists, or are they being cleverly decoyed? What will they do when they get to the Isthmus of Scientia? And more importantly, what will they do when they run out of gas, which according to the gas gauge is going to happen any second? Tune in next time and see!] Steve