God and proof

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  1. DJSupreme23 neocortex activated Registered Senior Member

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    Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true
    rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has
    always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save
    us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of
    evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest
    of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore
    he must exist.
    ^
    ^ -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
    ^ "For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
     
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  3. EvilPoet I am what I am Registered Senior Member

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    God, Proof, and The Babel Fish

    "The Babel fish, is small, yellow, and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it.It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.

    Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything that mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."

    Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
     
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  5. joemamaa Registered Senior Member

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    Iguess thats where the saying came from , What are you babling about.
     
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  7. EvilPoet I am what I am Registered Senior Member

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  8. Balerion Banned Banned

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    EXCELLENT quote, Poet! I read the entire series recently in the form of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, and man, let me tell you...what a great read.

    I've actually used some ideas from that series on this board as well.

    I'm one frood who really knows where his towel is.

    JD
     
  9. EvilPoet I am what I am Registered Senior Member

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    Towels are very important.
     
  10. Cris In search of Immortality Valued Senior Member

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    Ahhhhh fooorrrtyyy tooooo!!!!
     

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