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</span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Mine is the short, ironic, acerbic and hilariously earth-scorching refutation of creationism where the word God is mentioned only once. The essay by Mark Twain entitled "Was The World Made For Man?" </span></div>
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</span></font></span></div></span><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/28 spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Spike
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<div><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span>>></span>"I was 10
for 10, and I am a flaming atheist<span>...</span></span><div class="im">
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<div><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255)"></span><span>></span>10 for
10 here too. More of an agnostic, but findings still valid. The friend who sent
this to me said the same thing as you, Spike. In almost identical words. Great
minds . . . are atheistic. Darren </div></div></div></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">You are too kind sir. Nowthen, a question for you, since
you are up to speed on religion and for the rest of you religion
hipsters:</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">*What is the best refutation of religion you have ever seen,
heard or read?</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">It can be a book or anything you want, a lecture by Dawkins,
even the ExI-chat archives. Before I present my answer, I will offer the
second best, and one that Max More might suggest: Bertrand Russell's Why I am
Not a Christian.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">But I have in mind one that is better still than that
devastating volume, which I will share once I see some of your
answers.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">spike</font></span></div>
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