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9 Oct 2024 23:20:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Just a passing thought on religion  
From: Darren New
Date: 22 Dec 2008 12:34:40
Message: <494fcfb0$1@news.povray.org>
Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>>   How can *any* hypothesis which states how the Universe came into
>>> existence
>>> be testable? 
>> It can make predictions that are or are not borne out, the same as any
>> other. For example, the "big bang" theory postulates that the universe
> 
> 	Only if causation applies.

And if it doesn't, then we're happily back at the point where there was 
nothing needed to cause the big bang, and hence no need for an eternal god 
to be around first. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.


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