re islamic authority over women in article c racm q darkside osrhe uoknor edu bil okcforum osrhe edu bill conner writes i can t recall anyone claiming that god makes anyone act a particlar way i think that you re attempting to manufacture a contradiction a world creator god does the moment it creates the world and to sayi that you can t recall anyone is even below your usual standard of a arguing my argument is based on quite usual theistic assumptions namely god is perfect god is all knowing god sets the rules the rules don t work for whatever reason because of its omniscience the god has known it in advance deletion to say that something defined contadictorily cannot exist is really asking too much you would have existence depend on grammar all you can really say is that something is poorly defined but that in itself is insufficient to decide anything other than confusion of course it is not a question of grammar it is a question of modelling has been discussed in the wonderful time when you were not posting to this group when a is contradictorily defined a does not point to an instance in reality unless there is more information in the definition of a that allows me to find it somehow however when the contradictory attribute is said to be essential ie has not got that attribute not the a i am looking for i can conclude that a does not exist your point that there are better reasons for the phenomenon of belief than the object of belief may lead to a rat s nest of unnecessary complexity i think i know what you re implying but i d like to see your version of this better alternative just the same that s quite like i predict coins falling predicted happened heads tails tails tails heads tails heads tails i take and dismiss the rest because of the unnecessary complexity the other evidence causes for an easy to understand explanation of why humans believe in gods read manwatching by desmond morris benedikt
