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JENSEN
Well, I guess I can't argue with a "professor."

EDWARDS
Sure you can.  Good professors appreciate hearing different viewpoints. In
fact, they've done their job correctly, they will have instilled in their
students the ability to think for themselves.  However, it's in one's
interest to present the viewpoint with some basis in logic and evidence
rather than special pleadings and urban myths.  For example, with regard to
the parable you posted earlier (which, by the way, is along the same lines
of the lame, old "You can't see air, but you know it's there") argument), in
which university did this occur?  Which class?  What were the professor's
and students' names?  When did this happen?  Where are the *relevant facts*?

JENSEN
Especially one who refuses open her eyes wide enough to see the whole
spectrum of ideas.

EDWARDS
Our eyes are open.  Where's the evidence?  Are your eyes open to the
possibility that your beliefs are the product of decades of conditioning?
Are your eyes open to the divinity of Apollonius of Tyrana, who lived
contemporaneously with Jesus, performed miracles, was able to enter closed
rooms, was said to be the son of a god, who was seen by his followers
following his death, and who ascended bodily into heaven?

JENSEN
Listen, the Bible is God's letter to Christians.

EDWARDS
And the evidence for this would be ... ?

JENSEN
If you get yourself all tangled up trying to catch it's point, than that's
what you get for reading someone else's mail.

EDWARDS
Uh, what?

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