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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:48:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com>
To:        Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Why did evolution fail? 
Message-ID:  <20020905104347.W52452-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <200209050702.g8572S190003@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>

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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Dave Hayes wrote:

> >> > Basically, its not that "God" cannot be rationally proven as much as
> >> > the fact that without God, nothing could be proven at all.  Hence,
> >> > God is proven from the impossibility of the contrary.  It is
> >> > unreasonable to reject that which is the foundation for everything
> >> > else.
> >>
> >> The fact that a proof either way is necessary, and takes precedence
> >> over the obvious and observable, is how Mankind got -into- this mess in
> >> the first place. ;)
> >
> > I never said that proof was *necessary*, at least not from a logical
> > standpoint.  But given that man is in intellectual darkness and
> > attempts to "suppress the truth in unrighteousness" it becomes
> > necessary to remove self-imposed stumbling blocks that prevent him
> > from seeing the truth.  ;-)
>
> This implies that man can see the stumbling blocks in order to remove
> them. Typically the first thing that has to be done is to teach man
> a course in sight, before man can see the stumbling blocks man has to
> remove.

I wasn't saying that a blind man could see the stumbling blocks.  I
was suggesting that a non-blind person could remove them.  Of course,
he's still blind, but at least he won't be tripping all over the
place.  8-)

Sight can only be granted by God.


Neal



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