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Old 07-17-2004, 09:26 PM   #14
Troubleshooter
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Originally Posted by lumberjim
Having read that story, the possibility seemed more plausible than 'magic' to me. Not that I had really made the connection between the star of Bethlehem and a real life stellar occurance. I always just thought of that as a story.
The thing is, is that if you accept that the preterscientific (God, Jesus, Mohammed, Vishnu, etc) is possible, then it follows that other such occurrances (magic) are possible.
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