Dan Listermann wrote:
> "duke" <duckgumbo32@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:20:59 -0500, "Dan Listermann" <dan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>wrote:
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>>>"duke" <duckgumbo32@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:22:42 -0500, "Dan Listermann"
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>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>"duke" <duckgumbo32@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 16:29:36 -0500, "Dan Listermann"
>>>>>><dan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>>>"duke" <duckgumbo32@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>>On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:39:39 -0000, "BIll M" <wmech@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>You can't tell anything from this poll. Faith isn't measurable
to
>>>>>>>>>>a
>>>>>>>>>>poll.
>>>>>>>>>>JM
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Perhaps. Faith is believing in something for which there is no
>>>>>>>>>objective
>>>>>>>>>verifable evidence. Only the brain dead believe in something for
>>>>>>>>>which there is no objective verifiable evidence!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>No, faith is believing something for which there may or may not be
>>>>>>>>evidence, but
>>>>>>>>definitely no proof.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>There is no place for faith if there is proof.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Mark Twain said something to the effect of, "Faith is when you
believe
>>>>>>>something you know ain't so."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If you know it ain't true, you have proof.
>>>>>
>>>>>"Proof," aside from some mathmatical concepts, is a relative thing.
>>>>
>>>>Which is why the atheist call for proof is a joke.
>>>
>>>We ask for evidence. We don't expect proof.
>>
>>You got evidence.
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>
> Let me get this straight. You expect me to provide evidence for the
absence
> of something, but you don't need to provide any evidence for the
presence of
> something, right?
>
>
>>duke, American-American
>>*****
>>"The Mumbo Jumbo Hokey Pokey is the most perfect form of Prayer."
>>Pope Paul VI
>>*****
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>
>
Yeh, he's a little screwed up in his thinking. On the other hand, I do
like the Hokey Pokey.
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