richard miller wrote:

"Paul Cardinale" <pcardinale@volcanomail.com> wrote in message

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being created).  However you can counter that counter-argument by
asking "Why is God trying to fool us?"

Paul Cardinale

I wouldn't bother asking , they'll have an answer to that an'all.

God's like that, 'he/she/it moves in mysterious ways'

I wish, when anyone questioned an assumption I made, I could simply reply,
'I move in mysterious ways' end of story!

Fantastic get-out clause, only God could have invented it - or a lawyer.

Sigh

you'd have thought Newton might have killed all the speculation, but sadly
not. 400 years later.

Richard Miller
No cig (gave up smoking years ago).

   I'm reminded of a one-panel cartoon I saw somewhere (Omni magazine?)
With a physicist or mathematician writing this elaborate
equation/proof/whatever on a large blackboard, creates a gap with the
words:

  ...then a miracle occurs... 

   and continues on with mathematical symbols...

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