----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Broderick" <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: God & stuff (was: Re: just me)
> At 05:23 PM 18/09/00 +1000, Emlyn wrote:
>
> >"God does/does not exist" is an untestable hypothesis.
>
> On the contrary. Here's one tried and true method:
>
> Find a purported Son of God Who is co-extensive with God. Kill him. Watch
> to see if the corpse comes back to life and ascends in Glory to Heaven. If
> he just comes back to life but *doesn't* ascend, take tissue samples and
> study closely before marketing miracle ingredient. Really, you have
nothing
> to lose either way (He'll forgive you for killing him, and anyway it only
> stung for a moment).
>
> Damien Broderick
>
Now that's a good idea for a biotech startup; maybe you can get around the
bans on human cloning by using the technical point the He is not really
human... hmm...
Emlyn
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