Re: Peterson's Death Sentence

From: Kevin Aylward (salesEXTRACT_at_anasoft.co.uk)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:06:42 GMT

Noah Roberts wrote:
> Kevin Aylward wrote:
>
>> Yes. I have already addressed this, with commandment 11. Sure, if the
>> only way you can salvage gods, is to throw absolutely *everything*
>> away, i.e. allow contradictions, then my argument fails.
>>
>> And you believe that this is a good refutation of the argument?
>>
>> Stand up and smell the roses.
>
> That isn't the only one. You don't address this one either:
>
{drival sniped}

 The cat is
> both dead and not dead.

Nope. http://www.anasoft.co.uk/quantummechanics/index.html

>
> Then there is the statement, which is similar to mine, that if you
> don't already assume God cannot do the logically impossible then the
> question is meaningless and no logically impossible task is even
> being set forth.
> Then the problem compounds if you add other branches of logic instead
> of just deductive. The rock cannot be both created and not created
> so long as you can prove that it can't. Since any proof of that would
> necissarily have to go against the definition of omnipotent (as
> defined) it cannot be proven.
>
> You can also trivialize the centuries of debate about this and claim
> that your reasoning overpowers all that, but that makes your argument
> trivial.
>
> Finally 42 is not the meaning of life,

Yep it is.

>it is the answer to the
> question about life the universe and everything; big difference. We
> don't know what the question is and cannot know since both answer and
> question cannot exist in the same universe at the same time;

Nope. 42 is the meaning of life. It makes way more sense than gods did
it, so I'm sticking to it until something more credible comes along.
Hint: why should there be a meaning to life?

Kevin Aylward
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