(September 26, 2013 at 7:57 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: As soon as one introduces omni-facets into a being, and then uses (for example) the bible as a reference of behaviour to said being, then you come up against contradiction after contradiction as to the reasoning and behaviour behind said actions.
The simplest solution is to use the "all" modifier. All-knowing. All-powerful (or Almighty). It implies that you're dealing with an omni-something being, without explicitly saying so. Even better, you can fudge the heck out of the definition for any of them, or even fall back on the old "the Greek word for [term] could mean..." and really obfuscate the shit out of your explanation.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
