Pop Quiz (to Farrell)

Austin Cline Pioneer@infidels.org
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:09:13 -0400 (00887836153, v04003a00b110a8cba5e2@[209.114.145.90]) 

AUSTIN
I'll answer Dave's questions - but most cannot be answered true or false.


DAVE

>1.   There is no God.


AUSTIN
Don't know what you mean by "God," So I cannot say.

DAVE

>2.   Yahweh (the God of the Bible) could very well exist.


AUSTIN
Don't know - depends upon which characteristics you choose. So I cannot say.

DAVE

>3.   Supernatural beings do not exist.


AUSTIN
Don't know, but I see no reason to believe that they do.

DAVE

>4.   I, Farrell Till, after having shown in my life that I can turn my back

>on what I am CONVICTED about and know to be true, acknowledge that my

>conviction in my current "beliefs" may also be completely wrong and I have

>the capacity to turn my back on it as well - in other words, I have shown

>that I can preach, write about and teach what I know in my heart to not be

>true.


AUSTIN
False, for me. I write about what I believe is true, although I may be
shown to be wrong later.

DAVE

>5.   There is no conceived design or intended purpose in the cosmos.


AUSTIN
Don't know, but I don't see any.


>6.   Human beings evolved from a point of singularity.


AUSTIN
Don't know - the question makes no sense.

DAVE

>7.   There is no "Creator" (being responsible for the creation of all that

>we know).


AUSTIN
Don't know, but I see no reason to believe in one.

DAVE

>8.   I will cease to exist when I die.


AUSTIN
Don't know, but I see no reason to believe otherwise.

DAVE

>9.   I am not concerned what happens to me when I die.


AUSTIN
True.

DAVE

>10.  There is no heaven, no hell, no Satan, and no atonement required for me.


AUSTIN
Don't konw, but I see no reason to believe in them.



Austin Cline; German Department; Princeton University
--- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
      esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

               - Nietzsche "The Dawn" (1881)