RE: Debunking Christianity? It's actually quite as simple as asking "why?"
July 16, 2011 at 4:49 pm
(July 16, 2011 at 4:42 pm)Boris Spacek Wrote: 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.
I agree the squared circle is a flawed argument, but these things are not brought up to have God perform meaningless tasks. They are brought up to see if God's qualities that are ascribed to him, such as omnipotence and omniscience, are contradictory in nature.
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
