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> On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Gordon Simons wrote:
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> > Presumably the most relevant survey would occur in hell - a place Will
> > Provine readily says he's going if he's wrong about his atheism.
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> I find this in very poor taste especially considering he has only a year
> to live. I found this attitude distasteful when Azimov died, and I find
> it equally distasteful now.
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> In any case, he could be exactly right. Should I now make a
> statement saying "won't you be embarrased when the only survey that
> matters is the one after you die in which you'll find you wasted your life?"
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> In other words, it's nothing but ad hominem or some other logical fallacy.
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> Tom
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If the materialists are right, there won't be any embarrassment for
theists in the afterlife, since there is no afterlife. And, as a theist,
I will have lived a happy, healthy life based on Biblical principles.
Either way, I win. Try reading Pascal's wager.
Dennis Durst