RE: If I were an Atheist
April 2, 2015 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2015 at 4:53 pm by robvalue.)
Wow!
Now that was a smack down, nice work
Indeed! The idea that "things wouldn't work if stuff was different" does indeed sound like a restriction on an omnipotent God. I hadn't thought of that before. Surely Mr omnimax can make constants to be whatever he wants and still make things work. If not, he's at the mercy of mathematics or something?
And lets face it, how well suited is this universe to human life? It's not. Almost all of it is lethal to us, including much of our own planet.
I'm sick of these arguments which put forward God having to work around arbitrary restrictions (like a human would) when he's simultaneously being heralded as omnipotent. It's both childish and intellectually dishonest. Trying to mix fairy tales with reality does not work.
Now that was a smack down, nice work

Indeed! The idea that "things wouldn't work if stuff was different" does indeed sound like a restriction on an omnipotent God. I hadn't thought of that before. Surely Mr omnimax can make constants to be whatever he wants and still make things work. If not, he's at the mercy of mathematics or something?
And lets face it, how well suited is this universe to human life? It's not. Almost all of it is lethal to us, including much of our own planet.
I'm sick of these arguments which put forward God having to work around arbitrary restrictions (like a human would) when he's simultaneously being heralded as omnipotent. It's both childish and intellectually dishonest. Trying to mix fairy tales with reality does not work.
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