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To: Soothesayer
Assuming that a personal God exists (which is very unlikely), he makes a considerable number of mistakes

Mistakes, compared to what?

Mistake, fault or error presupposes a standard of right, accuracy, correctness, or truth. How do you account for such a standard from nothing but mindless, purposeless, evolutionary, ever-changing matter in motion, which is all your brain, its by-products and everything else in the universe was, is or ever will be. And if that's is all there is, there is nothing to compare it to. A 'mistake' is a contradiction in terms from a naturalistic, darwinian premise, which by definition declaims any goal or purpose to the universe. Physical forces of chance/necessity do not make "mistakes". So where did you get this notion of a deviation from a standard by which to judge something a mistake? You just take it for granted that there is a standard, but can you justify or account for it from an atheistic premise?

74 posted on 10/02/2010 12:02:16 AM PDT by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: Diamond

That’s not necessary. It’s really simple:

God wants everyone to believe and spend eternity in heaven but some people will never be able to believe. Therefore, he screwed up.


75 posted on 10/02/2010 3:39:54 AM PDT by Soothesayer (“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license...")
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