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Old 7th May 2012, 04:59 PM   #182
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Originally Posted by JoeBentley View Post
Basically God gets an "out" because he's defined that way. You define something absent of evidence as something outside the realm of evidence and then use that completely arbitrary and made up definition to argue for its existence. It's rather silly.

All "Supernatural" copout concepts work that way. Like a said before it's semantics at best, and since I consider arguing semantics to be one step above swallowing a fully opened Swiss Army Knife, that should tell you how I feel about something where semantics is the best reason for it.
Oh, well, then, the way forward is clear! We just re-define the universe to be something that doesn't need god to create it, and we can stop all this silliness!

...what do you mean science doesn't work that way?
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