RE: Are miracles evidence of the existence of God?
July 24, 2020 at 8:09 am
(This post was last modified: July 24, 2020 at 8:12 am by Porcupine.)
(July 24, 2020 at 7:02 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: How would a god even know what it could and couldn't do? I don't mean to suggest that it's impossible to know, but working out the details can be illustrative. We learn what we can and cant do by trying and succeeding, or failing. How would a god learn that it could destroy a world, or couldn't, outside of trying it out? Maybe god is learning on the job.
Great point.
I guess I could believe he could have absolute knowledge of things he hasn't tried out by having absolute counterfactual knowledge if I actually believed in the existence of non-abstract counterfactuals but I don't. So, I guess to believe that omniscience is even metaphysically possible we would have to be a counterfactual platonist. So even the potentiality of such omniscience would require the actuality of a very specific sort of platonism that, to me personally, seems like an especially silly sort of platonism (and that's saying something).
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts
