It's a logical problem for theists (who define God as defined above). If I were to say that Santa Claus exists, has the power to give every child who is good a present, and wants to do so - the existence of good children who don't get presents (for example) means that such a Santa Claus cannot exist (although some other type of Santa Claus might).
Logic is I think quite useful, it allows us to make a reasonably good decision on whether something is true or not. Otherwise one might believe anything. The more you try to take reason (well - and to some degree a God who can objectively be demonstrated to exist in any way) the more you end up with a dragon in your garage (http://robhu.livejournal.com/92268.html).
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Re: This year's CICCU Main Event - DIRECTION
Date: 2005-02-09 04:07 pm (UTC)Logic is I think quite useful, it allows us to make a reasonably good decision on whether something is true or not. Otherwise one might believe anything. The more you try to take reason (well - and to some degree a God who can objectively be demonstrated to exist in any way) the more you end up with a dragon in your garage (http://robhu.livejournal.com/92268.html).