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To: Right Wing Professor
You've introduced a new concept. The "exclusion" is a logical opposition that involves different features than the zero-sum fallacy.

In any case, a medical condition does not exclude divine agency.

574 posted on 12/13/2005 10:11:46 AM PST by cornelis
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To: cornelis

" In any case, a medical condition does not exclude divine agency."

It's not that calls to divine action aren't possible after the natural causes of the medical condition are discovered, it's that they are no longer necessary. Why bring in a supernatural explanation when a natural, testable one will do perfectly well?


579 posted on 12/13/2005 10:16:04 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: cornelis
The "exclusion" is a logical opposition that involves different features than the zero-sum fallacy.

If the intersection of sets A and set B is zero, and if the union of A and B is C, and we move elements into set A, from within C, then we must subtract the same elements from B.

In any case, a medical condition does not exclude divine agency.

It does if you accept a naturalistic explanation for disease.

580 posted on 12/13/2005 10:18:13 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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