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Old 07-18-2008, 11:37 PM   #12
nkb
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I dig this thread. Great idea, Kamikaze.

Here is a recent one from one of our new fake agnostic, w_1975.
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So if the Mona Lisa fell out of the South American sky and was discovered by one of the indian tribes that have no contact with civilization, how many of them would correctly conclude the the creator was Leonardo Da Vinci, how many would conclude it had no creator at all, and if they all made incorrect conclusions would that mean Leonardo Da Vinci did not paint it ?
The analogy itself is actually ok, but it proves the opposite point than he is trying to make.

If humans are the Indians in this analogy, then the chances of even a single one of us correctly identifying the correct creator of the painting are nil. Hence, we can safely ignore any human attempt at an explanation of a super-duper deity that created the universe.

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
George Bernard Shaw
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