[~ot] why is programming so fun?

Georg Wrede georg at nospam.org
Thu Jun 5 15:24:23 PDT 2008


Gregor Richards wrote:
> Yigal Chripun wrote:
> 
>> one last thing, let's consider god from a logical POV:
>> god is all powerful => God can create a rock no-one can lift => god
>> cannot lift the rock or god cannot create such a rock => contradiction
> 
> 
> I hate this argument.
> 
> God is all powerful => God can create a rock that he cannot lift => God 
> /can/ lift the rock => Not a contradiction because God is exempt from 
> logic. Any god which did not create the rules of logic and reason is not 
> a god, and any god which did must himself be exempt from them.
> 
>  - Gregor Richards

Well put.

(Although I don't believe in god(s), this is well enough put to warrant 
some meditation.)




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