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Funny thing about theodicy
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RE: Funny thing about theodicy
April 11, 2014 at 9:45 am
(April 10, 2014 at 8:31 pm)Heywood Wrote: New research suggests that intelligence tries to maximize the diversity of future options. If God only allowed us to make "good choices" it would be an act of limiting our future options thereby making us less intelligent.

Better to be smart and capable of evil then dumb and only capable of good.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/ted-an-equatio...sner-gross

And your omnipotent god is limited by a false dichotomy like that? Thinking
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Funny thing about theodicy - by tor - April 10, 2014 at 4:28 pm
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Anomalocaris - April 10, 2014 at 4:42 pm
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by RobbyPants - April 10, 2014 at 7:36 pm
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Heywood - April 10, 2014 at 8:31 pm
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by RobbyPants - April 11, 2014 at 9:39 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Heywood - April 11, 2014 at 9:54 pm
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by tor - April 11, 2014 at 9:59 pm
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Jacob(smooth) - April 12, 2014 at 3:02 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Esquilax - April 11, 2014 at 9:45 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Heywood - April 12, 2014 at 2:49 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Fidel_Castronaut - April 12, 2014 at 3:12 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Heywood - April 12, 2014 at 3:17 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Fidel_Castronaut - April 12, 2014 at 3:24 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by tor - April 11, 2014 at 9:58 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Jacob(smooth) - April 12, 2014 at 3:28 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Heywood - April 12, 2014 at 3:44 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Jacob(smooth) - April 12, 2014 at 6:57 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Esquilax - April 12, 2014 at 7:02 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Jacob(smooth) - April 12, 2014 at 7:31 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Esquilax - April 12, 2014 at 7:36 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Fidel_Castronaut - April 12, 2014 at 3:35 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Whateverist - April 12, 2014 at 7:43 am
RE: Funny thing about theodicy - by Jacob(smooth) - April 12, 2014 at 9:44 am

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