(April 19, 2014 at 10:11 am)fr0d0 Wrote: 1. God is all powerful, yet constrained by logic.
Can God lift a rock too heavy to lift = can God create square circles = can God do the illogical
2. That's the story we're addressing. God had to cure the species by pruning the dead wood. Is genetic inheritance true? Then inheritance of a genetic fault could be catastrophic.
You are confusing logical with actual impossibility and so are undermining the very point on which your argument was supposed to turn.
I, as a human being of limited powers, might easily find myself in a position where in order to cure one evil, I was obliged to enact another (but in my judgment lesser) evil. To save a life, I have to amputate a limb (or to save the ants from total annihilation, I have to subject almost all of them to annihilation to use your analogy).
But that is not a logical requirement. Saving a life without amputating a limb or saving a group of ants from extinction without killing any of them are both logical possibilities. The amputation and the ant massacre are both means to an end. As limited non-omnipotent beings, we do not have the luxury of achieving all our ends without having to go through means, sometimes pretty unpleasant ones. But the same cannot be true of an omnipotent deity. If he wants to save a life, save an ant tribe or prevent the spread of evil, he only has to will it.
If you want to preserve your argument, you will have to do much more work on making out a case for why God was LOGICALLY unable to achieve his end without the drastic means of killing people.
