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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/12/2008 : 06:44:14
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I mean, the guy has his professoring to do, research to perform, a blog to keep after, and a family as well. But somehow he does it all and now he has uncovered a vile plot to prove the existence of Russell's Teapot: A conspiracy to undermine atheism!
We're in big trouble now. A think tank is gearing up to take on all those uppity atheists, and they have a cunning plan that cannot fail, which will strip us of one of the most important tools in our arsenal. They have found Russell's Teapot, and are planning to put it into space.
We are logically doomed.
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Upon opening the link he's thoughtfully proveded, we find this soul-shaking essay:
"The Wedgwood Document
Top Secret – NOT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
INSTITUTE OF DISCOVERY 2008
In a famous 1952 article, ‘Why there is no God' commissioned by ‘Illustrated Magazine', the famous atheist Bertrand Russell wrote:
“If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion .............. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.”
This point, the notorious ‘Russell's Teapot' question has been a thorn in the side of religious advocates ever since. Every time we tell atheists that they have not disproved God they invariably bring up Russell's teapot. We are told that just because we too cannot disprove Russell's teapot this logically means that any particular invented deity, such as The Pink Unicorn, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Zeus or Allah, cannot also be disproved and such are just as evidentially based as the one true God. Even Richard Dawkins uses the analogy both in ‘The God Delusion' and on his frequent media appearances, to mock the basis of believers sincerely held faith.
What these infuriating atheists failed to realize is that if Russell's Teapot could be disproved then the final defence of atheistic materialism will fall. Far from being a logical deathblow to belief in a personal God, the analogy is the Achille's heel of atheism, for, if we can indeed detect Russell's teapot in orbit, then it naturally follows that God CAN be empirically proven.
This crushing defeat of atheisms most compelling argument can only lead to one outcome, the inevitable weakening of materialism and the ushering in a new age of piety and faith-based hope for billions.
But how to do so?
Clearly we require two factors to achieve our aim;
1) Russell's teapot,
and
2) A powerful space telescope."
Are we free-thinkers doomed? If this insidious project is taken to fruition, it certainly looks like it.
"Oh, the humanity!"
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Edited by - filthy on 05/12/2008 06:45:33
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When does PZ find time to sleep?
