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But there is evidence for the existence of God. You might not consider it *good* evidence, but it's there. I've made this point here before. Perhaps you would care to enlighten us with a definition of what you consider evidence? I suspect that either the definition is overly narrow, rendering your inference invalid, or that under your definition, the claim that there is no evidence for the existence of God is false.

I also don't understand your claim that 'love' is nothing other than a bio-chemical reaction. This seems similar to the claim that pain is nothing other than C-fibers firing.* No, pain is that sensation I get when something's hurting me. While the physical mechanism is the cause of that sensation, there is more to the sensation than just the physical mechanism. Similarly, even if love is causally reducible to a physical mechanism, what love is, is the feeling that I am conscious of. To think otherwise is to just ignore the phenomenology of the whole thing.

*I've heard that the physical mechanism of pain is actually not C-fibers firing. If this is wrong, just ignore it -- it's not really important to the point.

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