The problem with trying to use probability to prove humans were intelligently designed is that you then have to concede that god himself was designed by a greater god, and the god after that, and so forth. And you still don’t get over the problem of the First Cause.
Resolved:
Dear Online Community,
I am addressing this letter to my Ebay customers, as well as all those that I have been talking to online. This will be sent by my wife to explain my absence. For those that places orders and did not recieve your items, please rest assured that you will be recieving your refunds A.S.A.P. I’m very sorry to have been absent for quite some time now, but I have had a lot on my plate in life. I debated whether or not to make this, but in the end I felt it the polite thing to do. Recently my Grandmother fell ill with health complications, of which I feel is best left a private matter from those I communicate with online. For the past few weeks, I haven’t been online, nor do I have any desire to be. I am the only one in my Granny’s life that can take care of her right now, and that’s what I’m going to do. The way I look at it, the internet isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and I’ll get back to business eventually.
Until further notice, the store will be shut down. My wife has all the info she needs to give swift refunds to those that have been requesting them, and she will send the items out to those of you that still want them; for which I am most grateful!
To those I am involved in conversations with on message boards, just let my threads drop. I will pick them back up one day. I look foward to continuing our conversations in the future.
Thank you so much for your patience with this hectic time in my life. This will be the only message sent out. I will return after my Grandmothers passing. I thank my customers for your business, and to the rest of you; I’ll see you again one day.
Sincerelly,
Jeduraiya
Reported.
That ends that.
You guys seem to be having fun so I’ll leave this open for the moment. I’ll check in and see if it needs closing later.
A conversation is a process where people engage in dialogue back and forth.
Refund in lieu of receipt of evidence of existence of God…
I wonder how much we can expect and how quickly.
I’ve seen “proofs” like these many times before(sometimes even on this board), and I think they are presented by people that believe that, since this same argument worked previously on a group of people that were somewhat scientifically ignorant(or at least unquestioning of what people in religious authority told them about “science”) and already believe in the “God” put forth-or in other words, a preselected audience-there is no reason the same argument shouldn’t work out in the general public. This, of course, almost never gets the expected response.
Damn, the ol’ “Sick Grandmother” excuse. So sick that his wife has to issue the excuse. Coulda boxed up a bunch of eBay trinkets in the time he’s wasted here.
Sounds like the title of a Twilight Zone episode.
The other problem is that human design doesn’t seem particularly intelligent, looks like just random mutations over a 100 million years …
The funny thing is, I was about to mention this after the first few excuses. They sounded suspiciously like a “shaggy dog” story.
Hey, give the guy a break; he explained to his eBay customers that, for the past few weeks, he simply hasn’t been online. I mean, sure, he posted the OP on Wednesday, and here we are on Tuesday, but – wait, I must be doing the math wrong.
God whacked Grandma because Jed knew too much!
She’s not dead.
10,000 quatloos in 12 parsecs
I think we are dealing here with a true manifestation of Evil, possibly Beelzebub himself. Consider: the OP offers nearly perfect proof of the existence of God. Some minor flaws in the proof are pointed out in a flurry of some 250 or so replies, all of which the OP assures us he will fully address; the objections and alleged flaws are apparently of no consequence to his immutable logic. We wait. OP appears to run into unexplained difficulties. Then suddenly, bam! Grandma is stricken, and the OP is out of circulation!
No one could possibly see this as mere coincidence. The Devil, the Antichrist, Lucifer, and Beelzebub all have their ungodly hoofprints in this, mark my words. When you have proof of God, it is always this way.
She resting after a good squawk.
Are you parroting someone?
She’s pining for the fjords.