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Originally posted by djmcmath
Stuart, you know I would argue that the proof of God's existence is all around us, and throw the ball right back into your court: Prove, if you will, that there is no God. The negative is no more demonstrable than the positive, if you approach it from the other side.
Dan
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In December, a natural disaster took hundreds of thousands of the lives of gods beloved children. Why did god kill his children? He loves us. Where was god in Aceh in December? Did god send a great wave becasue the people in Indo, and Thailand and India and the Maldives had angered him?
Or perhaps this was just a random act of nature, that the rational person would expect to see in a system where chaotic forces reign.
On a less dramatic scale, why will God allow innocent peope to die, say, in Iraq, tomorrow? Or at a high school in Minnesota? Why arent these innocents saved by divine intervention? Did god create these people in his image just to cause them to come to harm?
The standard answer is "nobody can know the mind of God".
Much easier platitude to throw around than contemplating that there are no Almighty Hands on the levers.