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I know this isn't the time or place, but...to those who believe in God and free will, look at what you're suggesting: God gave us free will, therefore we do what we want. Um, what if we leave out the first part? We KNOW we do what we want - but why jump to the conclusion that it's because God gave us that ability? It's perfectly fine to accept that the world is simply THERE, and we're a part of it all. Throwing God into the equation just adds a complication that explains nothing. I know I'm being annoying, but the fact that so many people believe in God isn't justification for believing in God. Check it out, half of the country thinks Bush is a good leader...need I say more?
And I pose the ultimate question to those who might claim that I can't prove God DOESN'T exist: well, so what? I can't prove there isn't a giant spider hiding behind Jupiter, watching us, but that doesn't increase the chances that there IS one. You'll tell me my spider theory is ridiculous and has nothing to do with the idea of God. Since when are 'silliness' and our personal attachment with an idea good criteria in determining what's really true? With no information we shouldn't even bother making assumptions.
One more thing: maybe God created the universe. So who created God? Another higher God? Why not just stop one step earlier and not even believe anything until we have evidence that points one way or another? All we KNOW for sure is that WE'RE here, and so is the universe. Everything we see is perfectly consistent with things just *happening*, following the rules of physics. There doesn't HAVE to be a reason for anything. We might WANT there to be, but our desires aren't good tools to examine the world. In fact, our emotions and desires for PURPOSE often lead us to false conclusions. Kepler (his conception of the universe as a bunch of embedded ideal shapes), Aristotle (sun-centered universe), and Percival Lowell (and his imagined Mars canal network) were prime examples...they wanted the universe to be the way that FELT natural to them, and were just plain wrong.
Same thing with the fraud investigations: we all WANT those Florida stats (registrations versus machines tallies) to prove fraud, but our wanting it doesn't make it so. We have to be critical of our own theories so nobody else can prove us wrong (just HOW serious is the Dixiecrat influence? Maybe we'll know someday...)
But I know I've opened a can of worms now.
But hey, we're a liberal bunch, right?? We can take it.
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