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2008-02-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Humor: Atheist professor challenges God to prove himself

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Posted by gorb 2008-02-18 03:39|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 What's important in the End, is not whether you believe in God, it's whether God believes in you. :)

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-18 08:39|| 2008-02-18 08:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Now it [the Babel-fish] is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the NONexistence of God.

The argument goes like this:

`I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'

`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'

`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.

`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next pedestrian crossing.

Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book, "Well, That about Wraps It Up for God."

Posted by gromky 2008-02-18 09:26|| 2008-02-18 09:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Ahh Douglas Adams! Time for a re-read.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble 2008-02-18 15:34|| 2008-02-18 15:34|| Front Page Top

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