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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: Heroic Game Launcher... BRAVO!
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 08:00:04 -0400
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RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 2024-06-26, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>> RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> On 2024-06-26, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:37:16 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Exactly. Evolution is faith-based. No one knows *how* evolution actually
>>>>> happened, but they believe by faith in the "fact" of Evolution. (They
>>>>> might as well capitalize the word "Evolution" because it has all the
>>>>> creative powers of God.)
>>>>
>>>> At least evolution doesn't create a god who stacks the deck, creates 
>>>> original sin, necessitating a redeemer somewhere down the line. Talk about 
>>>> guilt trips. 
>>>
>>> I don't have the brain-power to second guess an all-powerful, infinite God 
>>> but I'm guessing there was a reason for how and why He created the universe.
>>
>> Yeah, and who created God? You don't need Him as a hypothesis.
>>
>> "The cosmos is everything that is, was, and ever will be."
>>     -- Carl Sagan
>>
>> And the cosmos doesn't give a rat's ass about humankind.
>
> You miss the whole point of God. He was not created. He simply *is.* "I am 
> who am." And Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I am."
>
> This is called faith or religion, although Aristotle (and St. Thomas Aquinas) 
> used philosophy to prove the necessity of God. (See their arguments for the 
> "Unmoved Mover.")
>
> The cosmos may not give a rat's ass about humans, but God does. But the fact 
> that you oppose your belief in evolution to my belief in God, just makes it 
> clear that evolution *is* your religion — you believe by faith.

Faith buttressed by a lot of physical evidence.

Again, the universe simply *is*.

-- 
You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the
obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and
an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
		-- Sherlock Holmes, "The Norwood Builder"