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skafather84
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26 May 2007, 12:01 am

thegodofhats wrote:
How many creationists does it take to skrew in a lightbulb? What's the difference? They just pray until an evolutionist comes along and changes it for them.


i know a different version:



how many creatoinists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

none...if god wanted a working light bulb in the socket, he would have made it that way from the start.



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26 May 2007, 5:44 am

thegodofhats wrote:
If God can do anything can he make a rock that even he can't move?


The concept of Omnipotence is one I don't much care for. It gets absurd as soon as a question of this kind surfaces. Yes, he should be able to do that. But - he should also be able to change that aspect of the rock. Making it all meaningless, weird and exhausting.

Meta-physics can be fun, though.


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26 May 2007, 9:08 am

If god created the universe than who created god? And who created that god and on and on?



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02 Jun 2007, 6:17 am

Well, according to First Cause-arguements, God created himself. "Since everything has a cause, something must have caused the otherwise first cause. Since it is of course the patented property of God to create something out of nothing, only God could have made anything happen at all, thus: Voila! God must exist!"

Bah, Humbug!


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02 Jun 2007, 7:45 am

The guy who runs my comic store and I had a discussion on this very matter a week or so ago. Now, he's pretty much an atheist, as far as I can gather, so he was approaching this concept from a coldly logical point of view.

This was his exact statement:

There is an infinitely small chance that God exists. God is infinite. Therefore, there must be a God :P


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