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Old 04-30-2007, 03:16 PM   #14
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Or not.

For the trillionth time....it is impossible to 'prove' Gods existence.

Ugh.
Mr. Dawkins would answer this question this way. Refer to The God Delusion.

http://richarddawkins.net/article,22...uffington-Post

The God Hypothesis is a proper scientific hypothesis whose truth or falsehood is hidden from us only by lack of evidence

We explain our existence by a combination of the anthropic principle and Darwin's principle of natural selection. That combination provides a complete and deeply satisfying explanation for everything that we see and know. Not only is the god hypothesis unnecessary. It is spectacularly unparsimonious. Not only do we need no God to explain the universe and life. God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs. We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very very improbable.

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