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Originally Posted by Tom

Daft example, you easily disprove that

We will never know how the world started, or whether God exists or not in this lifetime.

How so?

Billions of other examples exist. I love how an abstract, ill defined 'God' could sit outside the perimiter of the universe and the theory gains wide respect and acceptance just because 'god' as been a preserved facet of our culture for millions of years yet suggest to someone that a cardboard box could be floating outside it and they scoff. Why? One hypothesis is equally as absurd as the other. What if God is a box? You can't disprove that, just like ... as you said ... you can't disprove God, right?

It reminds me of that Douglas Adams anecdote of a cult of people who believed snots were demonic, and they prayed and prayed for the coming of 'the great sneeze'. Hey, that's the way our culture could have went. We just picked the man in the sky idea instead. Why is one perceived to be more insane than the other? Because we have been conditioned to accept one, and not the other.