----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Mage" <shmage at pipeline.com>
C.G.Estabrook wrote:
>
>...To assert the existence of God is not
>to state a fact within an established intellectual system but to claim
the
>need for exploration; it is to claim that there is an unanswered question
>about the universe: viz., "Why is there anything instead of nothing?"...
But this question itself is profoundly dishonest, because the very word "why" predicates an external teleology of the universe.
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The question is not dishonest and the word "why" used in the sentence above doesn't necessarily predicate an external teleology.