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I can't help but think of this very similar argument from HHGG (Douglas Adams): > Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggli
by puffoflogic 5y ago
I can't help but think of this very similar argument from HHGG (Douglas Adams):
> Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen it to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
> The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
> "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
> "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
> "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets killed on the next zebra crossing
- laumars 5y agoNearly every page in that book contains a genius quote. Such a good book