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> "I don&apos;t know where you get such rules from"-This goes all the way back to Aristotle, and the Greek philosophers before him used those rules even though Aristotle was the first to codify them. A [i]statement[/i] can consist of clauses separated by "and" and "or" conjunctions. There are well-known logical rules for determining the truth of the statement as a whole by looking at the truth of each individual clause and the conjunctions that connect them. If all of the clauses in a statement are separated by the "and" conjunction and all of the clauses except one are true, then the statement as a whole is false. I learned this several years before taking Philosophy 101 44 years ago, and so when my logic professor presented that material in that class, it was already second nature to me.-Google for "truth tables" to find out what all the rules are and how you can build a truth table to determine the truth of a statement as a whole. A simple example is the following, and my original statement followed this pattern: "It is raining and the humidity is 5%." If it is true that it is raining but false that the humidity is 5%, then the quoted statement as a whole is false.-I guess from now on I&apos;ll have to break up your statements and treat each individual clause as a separate statement and let you know whether I think each is true or false, since Aristotelian logic doesn&apos;t seem to be second nature with you. -&apos;I wonder what syntactical rule you would call on to explain your acceptance (24 October at 19.10) of Dawkins&apos; belief that "there is nothing beyond the natural physical world, no supernatural intelligence lurking behind the observable universe...", followed by your subsequent rejection of it (30 October at 21.30).&apos;-If I ever accepted Dawkins&apos; statement you quote I must have been smoking some illegal weed that was addling my brain. I especially find his use of the word, lurking, offensive, as I would not characterize how God observes as "lurking." I would rather characterize it this way: as intensely interested and as involving as [i]possible[/i], but no [i]more[/i] than what is possible.-Hopefully it&apos;s clear to you now what I&apos;m really proposing and we can indeed drop this sterile discussion as you suggest we should.