(July 6, 2012 at 11:48 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: A good case against the existence of which God? The deist God? The Christian God? Is the God you're referring to omniscient and omnipotent? Does it have perfectly free will? Is it omnibenevolent? Does it condemn people to hell? There are a lot of Gods, would you be more specific, please? I can tell you that the God of Theodicy doesn't exist: an omniscient being can't do anything it does not foresee and an omnipotent being can do anything. Omniscience also contradicts free will.
Eh, bad definition of "omnipotence", I think. "Omnipotence" is self-contradictory; you'd have to be able to do things that you can't do--and do impossible things, like draw a square circle, or create a married bachelor, or give an example of a non-commutative group of order 2.
I think a better definition is something like, "Everything willed can be actualized", and you just say that you can't will to do impossible things.
And just saying "omniscience contradicts free will" isn't giving a reason. It's just stating a conclusion, without any reason to think that it's true. How do you know that the Molinists are wrong?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
