A couple of points:
1. No, I don't need to know every facet of the universe to grasp that God is not a needed explanation for anything. Since naturalism has an overwhelmingly successful explanatory track record, it would be up to the religionists to demonstrate that naturalism is wrong, and that God is required as an explanation. But I'll be fair - name a natural event or phenomenon that cannot, positively CANNOT be explained by natural means. In other words, give us a verified phenomenon to consider whereby God is the only possible explantion. Take your time.
2. The questions in my OP are simply what the vast majority of religionists believe to be true about God: that he is all-powerful, all knowing, merciful, just, and so on and so forth. My answers are an attempt (and I say with all humility, a pretty fair one) to show why these beliefs are not logically tenable. As another poster mention, it doesn't matter that I lack belief in God when I wish to point out that the qualities attributed to him are nonsensical. In the same way, one is not required to believe in Father Christmas in order to point out that reindeer can't fly.
3. Kaiser Soze, hemorrhoid sufferer, riding in an iron chariot, would clearly render God paralytic with fear.
Boru
1. No, I don't need to know every facet of the universe to grasp that God is not a needed explanation for anything. Since naturalism has an overwhelmingly successful explanatory track record, it would be up to the religionists to demonstrate that naturalism is wrong, and that God is required as an explanation. But I'll be fair - name a natural event or phenomenon that cannot, positively CANNOT be explained by natural means. In other words, give us a verified phenomenon to consider whereby God is the only possible explantion. Take your time.
2. The questions in my OP are simply what the vast majority of religionists believe to be true about God: that he is all-powerful, all knowing, merciful, just, and so on and so forth. My answers are an attempt (and I say with all humility, a pretty fair one) to show why these beliefs are not logically tenable. As another poster mention, it doesn't matter that I lack belief in God when I wish to point out that the qualities attributed to him are nonsensical. In the same way, one is not required to believe in Father Christmas in order to point out that reindeer can't fly.
3. Kaiser Soze, hemorrhoid sufferer, riding in an iron chariot, would clearly render God paralytic with fear.
Boru
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