(July 21, 2009 at 2:27 am)Tiberius Wrote: Perhaps I haven't explained myself clearly.
1) Person X has attribute Y.
2) Attribute Y is impossible / has been disproved.
3) Therefore Person X cannot have attribute Y, and the description of Person X in (1) is false.
Ergo, the Person X described in (1) does not exist.
Except that a six-day creation event is not an attribute of God. Nobody describes a six-day creation event as something that God is (attribute), but rather as something God did (action). As I originally argued (Msg. #140), it simply does not follow that God is completely different from the one portrayed if you show some action of God did not take place; "it is some specific action of God's that would be completely different from the one portrayed, not his nature or very existence; i.e., acts of God (e.g., six-day creation) are separate from attributes of God (e.g., omnipotence)."
1. Person S has attribute P.
2. Action X has been disproved.
3. Therefore...
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)