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Your Heart - Your Brain - Your Life - Don't Waste 'em . . .

Ken Collins KPaulC at email.msn.com
Mon Jul 19 22:20:16 EST 1999


Malcolm McMahon wrote in message <37954855.10867296 at news.demon.co.uk>...

>[...]

>I can see how this sounds like an irrelvant jump but it's connected to
>the above speculation. I'm wondering if atheism actually fills that
>"biological" drive towards religious belief, albeit it replaces God with
>Occam's Razor. It seems like the same kind of certainty in areas where I
>believe no rational certainty can exist.

supposition that 'Occam's Razor', or anything else that can be traced back
to neural information-processing dynamics, is 'mutually-exclusive' with the
Existence of God, is fallacious.

it's like saying that sawing a log with a bowsaw is 'mutually-exclusive'
with the existence of oxygen... doesn't compute.

K. P. Collins






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