(October 2, 2014 at 7:01 pm)Alex K Wrote: @Boru
Not so fast speedracer,
How can you as a fallible human being possibly know whether this better world which you imagine is self consistent and hence possible at all?
Because an infallible being is incapable of bad design (by definition). If, as the theists (the Christian variety, anyroad), God loves us and wishes none to come to harm, then I - fallible though I am - should not be able to perceive any flaws in the design.
Thus, if I can perceive flaws and imagine a better way round the houses, then I'm better than God at designing a world intended for the improvement of human beings (which is ostensibly God's plan).
I can forestall the inevitable objection of 'The flaws you perceive may not be flaws at all' by turning it round: If I can perceive the flaws, they MUST be flaws, else I wouldn't be able to perceive them in the first place (the option is that God is a malicious trickster).
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
