(July 25, 2012 at 5:11 pm)Skepsis Wrote: You are equivocating "nothing" because you stated that it would be "evil" for God NOT to create a universe, or to be more accurate, to leave the universe in its evil state. You then said that "evil" is the cause of the reversion of material back to nothing.
You basically cited two different "nothing"s. The first is an almost true "nothing", in that only a God existed during said time.
The second is a practical "nothing", where there exists things other than God, but they have no definable attributes. Atoms are separated by trillions of miles in this "nothing".
So which is it? Which "nothing" is evil?
This is why I have a hard time following you sometimes.
It's late so let me just address this part for now (I haven't read any further yet. If what you've written qualifies this further, I will address it next post
)Am I not allowed to change my mind? Or hone my argument? Theists seem to be accused of being too rigid. Cut me some slack here!
Yes I have two nothings going on. I'm changing from "nothing = evil" to "evil is the reduction to nothing".
Nothing existed in #1. God isn 't physically existant
#2: I don't get your "practical nothing". There is no space between anything afaik. Just less matter. And for there to be the smallest particle anywhere means there isn't nothing everywhere
