Hi Pim, you wrote:
>>I'd argue that there is as much basis to presuppose a spahjetti
monster, Zeus, Thor, Wodan, or the countless other Gods as there is to
presuppose a Christian God. Using Collin's logic, we are all guilty of
rejecting these based on insufficient evidence about their
probabilities. This seems exactly the flawed approach chosen by ID.
Until we know more, we should presuppose God as 'the best
explanation'.
So why is the Christian God far more 'reasonable'? Because you were
raised in this tradition, exposed to the relevant teachings and have
accepted His existence. However, others have come to very different
conclusions based on much of the same evidence and arguments.
I fail to see how one can claim that there is no reasonable basis to
presuppose a spaghetti monster, while implying that there is a
reasonable basis for presupposing other such entities. Is our faith in
our God so much different from the faith of others in different
God(s)?<<
You wouldn't be making this argument if you had been among the
Israelites being lead through the wilderness by a column of smoke by day
and a pillar of fire by night. It wasn't the "spaghetti monster" who
spoke to Moses out of the burning bush. In short, we have the testimony
of 44 authors writing over a period of fifteen hundred years, all who
testified to the living God of the Judeo-Christian tradition. If I am
persuaded by data and evidence alone it is He, the great "I Am," that
gets my vote.
Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org/>
To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
Received on Tue May 1 12:55:09 2007
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Tue May 01 2007 - 12:55:10 EDT