(off-topic) Re: Buster Dobb's Ark Theory
JAlw@aol.com JAlw@aol.com
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 18:40:27 EST (00917847627, 6d3fb57.36b4e9eb@aol.com)
In a message dated 99-01-31 17:38:49 EST, you write:
<< Subj: (off-topic) Re: Buster Dobb's Ark Theory
Date: 99-01-31 17:38:49 EST
From: achillesz@usa.net
Sender: owner-errancy@infidels.org
To: errancy@infidels.org
On 31 Jan 99, at 15:14, JAlw@aol.com wrote:
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> Joe Alward:
<...>
> Why didn't God just hard-wire into the DNA of every human everything He
wished
> for them to know about Him?
Achilles
Sorry, I know it's off topic, but I can't resist - what makes you think "He"
didn't?
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Joe Alward:
It's not off-topic, in my view. It goes to the issue of omnipotence, which
has played a role in many, many skeptical arguments relating to errancy.
It's also a good point. I had snipped a sentence out of the first draft of my
post that raised this same question; I didn't want to cause the issue to
become unfocused.
To answer your question: I do not know if we have been hard-wired with any
god's message; however, I know of know evidence to suggest that we are.
There is, I believe, some evidence that we are hard-wired for belief in gods.
A study in Southern California, last year, I think, showed some correlation
between epilepsy and a tendency to embrace the supernatural, or a belief in
gods, or something like that.