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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:53:04 +1200
From:      C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Subject:   Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal)
Message-ID:  <199711112317.PAA02387@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199711111652.JAA16566@rocky.mt.sri.com>
References:  <199711110645.XAA02334@usr03.primenet.com>

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While a xtians vs atheists debate may be pushing the "chat" envelope 
just a little too far, and while I hesitate to participate in a 
debate that has occured several million times already in every other 
part of the Net....

Nate Williams wrote:

>[...does India exist...]
> What, you don't believe me?  Well, obviously you must have 'faith'
> that this country exists first, or that your 'faith' in the people
> who have convinced you that India exists is greater than the 'faith'
> you have in me that it doesn't exist.  You have 'Faith' based on
> someone else's experiene that India exists, and a lack of faith in
> me.

Bollocks. While this is a nice analogy for looney believers to push 
in a desperate justification of the unjustifiable, it simply ain't 
so. India is a repeatable phenomenon. God isn't.

						-- C.
						(who thought that Contact was a remarkabley
						heavy-handed piece of peurile dribble with
						some very nice special effects).
-- 
Craig Harding   Acting Director, Massey University Television Production Centre
     "I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly



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