(June 16, 2011 at 5:30 am)colubridae Wrote:
The problem with your question is this. If god can't make a cake that he can't eat, then he isn't omnipotent. If he can make a cake he can't eat, then he can't eat it, and he isn't omnipotent. Trying to answer the question results in a paradox.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell