RE: Debunking Christianity? It's actually quite as simple as asking "why?"
July 16, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Quote:Our resident fundies will denounce you for suggesting that their "omnipotent" god can't do something. If he can't create apricotness without also creating the lack of apricotness then he is not omnipotent. And they hate it when you say that their boy can't do whatever he wants.
Well, if you really think they would, I'm afraid that means they're at least a little dim. I was not saying that something prevents God from creating the nonexistence of whatever He creates, I was saying that realizing something's existence without further realizing the lack of it is not something God would be narrow minded enough to do. It's meaningless to ask God to create some obvious contradiction, like a square circle. So, why bring it up? Even if He could do such a thing, there would be no way of using it in our world. So if we're to use any logic here, we'll have to stop bothering God to perform mindless tasks.
Quote:First mistake. But welcome anyway.
It's not a mistake. It's part of the argument. The Young Atheist already presumed God existed and then brought up a contradiction over God's supposedly infinite goodness and his simultaneous involvement in the origin of pain. If I don't presume God exists, I'm not answering him and I'm not engaging him on the terms he set out. It would have been an irrelevant point, if I had made one.
