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Ad watchdog to make divine ruling

Updated on 09 January 2009

By Carl Dinnen

When the Advertising Standards Authority began, it probably did not envisage ruling on that most fundamental of questions - does God exist?

The regulator's dilemma has been caused by an atheist bus currently being driven around Britain.

A Christian pressure group have asked the ASA to rule whether its slogan, "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life", can actually be substantiated.

If the regulator decides to investigate and says the slogan can't be proved it would effectively be saying God Exists.

Hanne Stinson, chief executive of the British Humanist Association, offers her point of view.

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