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> So the answer does kind of "depend on your religious beliefs". Only if you choose to misinterpret the point.
by nkrisc 2y ago
> So the answer does kind of "depend on your religious beliefs".
Only if you choose to misinterpret the point.
- coldtea 2y agoIt's not a matter of interpretation. Except if they wanted to say "The answer, iff your religious beliefs are conveniently tame and constrained, so that your God has limited powers and is bound to respecting excluded middle, the laws of physics and other such constraints, doesn't depend on your religious beliefs".
- badmonkey101 2y agoThat's just like your opinion man
- coldtea 2y agoNope. In a discourse constrained by regular logic, it's a logically consistent argument. Their rules, not mine! Any other movie quotes to put forward in lieu of counter-arguments?
- badmonkey101 2y agoInvoking a fictitious god with any arbitrary property doesn't make your argument consistent - other then, that's just like your opinion man
- coldtea 2y ago>Invoking a fictitious god with any arbitrary property doesn't make your argument consistent Logical consistency only cares about propositions and their relationship, it doesn't care whether an entity involved in one is fictitious or not.
- hifromwork 2y agoLaw of excluded middle is a formal logic thing. If you assume law of excluded middle, you can use it for logical deduction. If you don't assume law of excluded middle, you can't. If your axioms are A->B and A then B, and even god can't change that. In contrast laws of physics are a real world thing, and any omnipotent being can meddle with it, basically by definition.
- coldtea 2y ago>If you don't assume law of excluded middle, you can't. You can't, under your logical constraints. God has no such constraints, not just in the physical but also in the logical realm. He can make it so that assuming the law of excluded middle and not assuming it at the same time, is compatible and consistent.
- kaba0 2y agoPulling the God card is a bit like redefining `true` to false in some very dynamic language. Like, is there a point in asking/answering anything if anything goes?
- coldtea 2y ago>Pulling the God card is a bit like redefining `true` to false in some very dynamic language. Yep. Possible, and endless fun for a certain sort of person! >Like, is there a point in asking/answering anything if anything goes? Sure, since at any given time anything God wills goes!
- mistermann 2y agoAnother point is that it gives Normies practice in modal logic, something they desperately need. Have you noticed that God being involved in the topic of a conversation seems to cut everyone's IQ by like 50%? And there are other topics that have this effect as well.