(March 26, 2015 at 8:21 am)professor Wrote: When you combine all Just with all powerful- you get a range of behavior that you do not leave.You are describing a person of cosmic power and intellect, who nonetheless painted himself into a corner that forces him to treat his own creation with appalling contempt... which you will likely claim he also doesn't wish to do.
Leaving it is not in the make- up of God.
Thus, God does not set- up the situations you describe.
Sorry prof, but the god you're describing is one clumsy fuck-up of a guy.
"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