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Old 17th July 2009
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Originally Posted by Sam Lord View Post
"How I wished that I had brought along my Italian friend Marco, a nuclear physicist, who might have, from the perspective of a profound belief in a creative God, brought the room to silence with a few reflections on nothingness. I believe he would have halved the membership of Atheist Ireland in half an hour."

What exactly would Marco's argument be, I wonder? Waters feels no need to elaborate it for some reason. Reason probably being that t has been dealt with a million times. Probably even in all those pub discussions Walters took part in.
It's the auld 'appeal to authority'. You can get away with that kind of thing a lot easier when you don't have to worry about it being pointed out by the third post.
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