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<div>What I find amazing is that human beings justify as some sort of "right" doing what they please with other beings they did not create! And then claim that God gave them this right! As though God (debate on definition difficult) created the marvelous diversity and intricacy of life on Earth, then turned it over for management and preservation to barbaric and greedy human beings.
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<div>Might we not incur the extreme wrath of a supreme being who created the marvelous works of living art that we share this planet with, if we destroy these living works of art to fulfill our greed for resources and development in an out of control consumer society?
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<div>Ted Moffett</div><br>
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<div>Paul, Joe et. al.</div>
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<div>Joe wrote in response to Paul:<br><br>This is a VERY interesting comment! One might ask, What on earth would it take you to<br>believe the above claims if a meeting with the Almighty wouldn't do it?<br><br>And herein lies the issue. What would it take you to believe in the existence of God? What would count as evidence, for you, that God exists?
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<div>Here is a response from Philosopher/Mathematician Bertrand Russell below:</div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.solstice.us/russell/agnostic.html" target="_blank">http://www.solstice.us/russell/agnostic.html</a></div>
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<h3>What kind of evidence could convince you that God exists?</h3>
<p>I think that if I heard a voice from the sky predicting all that was going to happen to me during the next twenty-four hours, including events that would have seemed highly improbable, and if all these events then produced to happen, I might perhaps be convinced at least of the existence of some superhuman intelligence. I can imagine other evidence of the same sort which might convince me, but so far as I know, no such evidence exists.
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<div>Here is a link to Russell's famous essay, "A Free Man's Worship."</div>
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<div>Other Russell writings on this web site:</div>
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<div>Russell received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950:</div>
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