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> theists "know" the unknowable, while atheists "know"
> the unknowable...
No. The universe is not an exercise in a math book. This insistence upon rigid logical proof is a mug's game, that I won't play. Atheists do not _know_ the unknowable. Will-he-nil-he, compelled by what Shelley calls "passion" (http://www.wam.umd.edu/~djb/shelley/necessity1880.html) we _believe_ the unknowable. In that I suppose we are pretty much like the theists - the sincere ones, anyway, you won't ever convince me that Pat Robertson, for example, believes the rubbish he exploits so profitably.
Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net