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Thread #100863   Message #2039650
Posted By: Stringsinger
30-Apr-07 - 02:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: Why should anyone believe in 'God'?
Subject: RE: BS: Why should anyone believe in 'God'?
Hi Daylia,

The Great Teapot in the Sky was posited by the late Bertrand Russell who said that if there were a teapot orbiting around the earth somewhere in the sky, you couldn't disprove that it wasn't there. Dawkins said the same for The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Little children still believe in Santa Claus although they probably envision him as drawn from the famous Coca-cola ads. He looks a little like Michelangelo's pointing-finger god.

The argument for god comes from I think Acquinas who said that if you can't disprove in a god, he must be there. The rebuttal is always if you can't disprove that he isn't there, he must not be there.

I do believe that the star cluster known as Sagitarius is there, however. I trust astronomers over theologians.

Frank