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From: Stacie Tolen :

>> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.  A claim of the
>> existance of a ordinary human being is hardly extraordinary.  Claiming
>> the existance of a god *is*.
>
> Who says human beings are ordinary?
>
There are 6 billion of them.  I see lots everyday.  It's hardly a
stretch of credibility to claim the existance of any particular one.
Unlike the claims of Invisible Pink Unicorns or any other diety
of your choice.

>
>
>> Humans are social animals.  As such, we naturally wish to be around
>> others of our kind.  Hardly compelling "proof" of a supernatural being.
>
> No, what she meant (in the movie) was not others of our kind, but a divine
> being.

And I'm supposed to take a fictional character's statement as truth
that we all suffer from this need for a diety?

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