[chezlaw]

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The argument is fine but not particularly helpful. Almost everybody already knows that Not Ready is wrong about this stuff, including the vast majority of highly religious people and deep down, including Not Ready himself. There are bigger fish to fry.

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A more serious response to your post:

I plan to build a shakey building on this simple foundation and at some point I may overstep the bounds of logic. All help keeping me on the straight and narrow is appreciated.

Nothing in this argument will make any difference to those who don't care to justify religon on rational grounds but I hope to have a useful dialogue with those who believe in rationality (you may already be able to see where I'm going and recognise it's futility but bear with me, I have to go slower than you).

chez