RE: The Problem of Evil combined with the problem of Free Will
May 26, 2017 at 9:11 am
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2017 at 9:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm not even sure why that's supposed to follow as whats left. Maybe it boils down to basic differences between people, but, if there were a god, and if it were possible to be aware of god -and- if I was aware of god....I still wouldn't see any reason to go asking it whether or not it was kosher to boil puppies. Nor would I rule out the possibility that god is a puppy boiler whose advice on the subject is suspect.
What's left, to you.... to me, seems to be completely uninformative. No amount of checking a story's editorial competency will demonstrate that the story is really real™. Internal consistency is moot. By predictive power...we can only coherently refer to a single as-yet to occur event...and I see no way of testing -that- chestnut. The answers to life's basic questions...probably amounts to little more than our preferences.
Examine them for evidence, sure...but that's the part where they're uniformly lacking. Full of answers to life's basic questions(and most of us disagree with most of them, lol).....they all contain portents of what's to come, and most have been competently edited for content over the years.
What's left, to you.... to me, seems to be completely uninformative. No amount of checking a story's editorial competency will demonstrate that the story is really real™. Internal consistency is moot. By predictive power...we can only coherently refer to a single as-yet to occur event...and I see no way of testing -that- chestnut. The answers to life's basic questions...probably amounts to little more than our preferences.
Examine them for evidence, sure...but that's the part where they're uniformly lacking. Full of answers to life's basic questions(and most of us disagree with most of them, lol).....they all contain portents of what's to come, and most have been competently edited for content over the years.
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