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Are Theists Illogical for Believing in God?
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RE: Are Theists Illogical for Believing in God?
(June 8, 2010 at 2:25 am)The_Flying_Skeptic Wrote: it's easy to create new counting systems but they are just different ways to describe the same thing. like how a binary counting system may be translated to our base 10 counting system in our universe (see you don't even need to go to other universes to make new counting systems). you must be sleepy... 2 + 2 = 4 in a base 10 counting system in any universe. my example of you counting four fingers had nothing to do with your fingers but just you acknowledging 4 objects, no matter the counting system you choose.
It's easy to create arithmetic that is really different from common arithemetic. Modular arithmetic is an example. It 'wraps around' like clock counting. Base 10 however differs from base 2 only in phyrepresentation. So there is no necessary relation between arithmetic and physical reality. There is no rule that says things in other universes should be countable at all.
(June 8, 2010 at 8:07 pm)Ramsin.Kh Wrote: All universes should be logical, because:
1) You enter any random universe.
2) You are taking place in that universe.
3) Therefore, space should exist for your entrance-possibility.
To say that all universes are logical means that any universe, even the ones you don't enter, must follow some internal logic. How do you manage to arrive at such a conclusion?
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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RE: Are Theists Illogical for Believing in God? - by Purple Rabbit - June 9, 2010 at 2:30 pm

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