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  1. Cap'n MacDougal

    Challenge for atheists/ atheist position

    Evidentiary standards are weighted in proportion to the claim being presented. Mundane claims require mundane evidence, fantastic claims require greater evidence. Personal experience generally falls into the mundane category, even when expressed in fantastic terms. I.e. "I ate the best pizza in...
  2. Cap'n MacDougal

    Challenge for atheists/ atheist position

    Good point. I read a book several years ago titled: "Thinking, Fast and Slow" which addressed the subject. The brain will act prudently in certain situations, limiting other functions. E.g. performing 4,562.98 • 9,874.04 in your head while attempting to turn left across a very busy intersection...
  3. Cap'n MacDougal

    If God Controls Everything...

    Understood. I was, momentarily, enjoying living in the hypothetical realm of extending responsibility *back* to an Omnimax God in a form of Contributory Negligence. In the sense that the power to do (or choose) otherwise is applicable to non-action. If I possess the power to stop a morally...
  4. Cap'n MacDougal

    Challenge for atheists/ atheist position

    Hello everyone. I apologize for jumping in and answering a question which was not addressed to me, as well as being late to the party. Theism is impotent in terms of explanatory power, predictive power, etc. with regard to varying phenomena which affect my life. Viz, I lack theistic belief...
  5. Cap'n MacDougal

    If God Controls Everything...

    Good morning, Legion. Thanks for the morning curiosity pique! God finds it valuable and beneficial that free agents exist, vs. automata, to a degree which he accepts the occurrence of morally reprehensible behaviors. I wonder what would become of me if I engineered a situation involving two...
  6. Cap'n MacDougal

    If God Controls Everything...

    Would you please clarify this a bit? I apologize for not getting it the first time around, but you may be utilizing some terminologies in a belief specific manner, I'm just a little lost. Whose perception is the actual focus? Are you stating that God was lonely, therefore man was created...
  7. Cap'n MacDougal

    If God Controls Everything...

    Good morning, Thief! That God concepts are configurable is one of their more entertaining (and most likely utilitarian) properties. I would have no idea how a time-transcendent God would perceive time. While we perceive time as linear, we do know that it is relative to gravity, velocity...
  8. Cap'n MacDougal

    If God Controls Everything...

    What's up man. I don't subscribe to the Creator Diety P.O.V., so, I only agree God transcends time for the sake of discussion. Interesting analogy re: dvr. I don't suppose, from my capacity as a finite l'il fella, that my foreknowledge of the players "choices" in a game has any determinant...
  9. Cap'n MacDougal

    If God Controls Everything...

    Hello, Guy. I'm not questioning God's transcendence of time. Although I do enjoy the Divine Metaphysical Puzzle of what mechanism God employs in the absence of time to engineer a T=0 time dependant event of creation. If God knows, today, that I will eat oatmeal for breakfast at 6:00 am next...
  10. Cap'n MacDougal

    If God Controls Everything...

    Hahahaaaa. I know! I love my Tuesday morning oatmeal! Thanks for the response, Etritonakin. I'm not certain either that my breakfast choices are written somewhere. I'm curiously enjoying the dynamic between God's omniscience and associated foreknowledge and any experience of choice which we...
  11. Cap'n MacDougal

    If God Controls Everything...

    Hahahahhaaa. I know! You may be right, I just love my oatmeal on Tuesday mornings! If, however, I were to change my mind then, would that change God's foreknowledge? Of course, it's conditional that this particular God has foreknowledge.
  12. Cap'n MacDougal

    If God Controls Everything...

    Hi Handyman. That's a bunch of gobbledygook and flapdoodle. Although I do appreciate you bringing the improper phrasing of my question to my attention. Thank you. Let me try again: If God knows now that I'm going to eat oatmeal for breakfast at 6:00 am next Tuesday, do I possess the power to...
  13. Cap'n MacDougal

    If God Controls Everything...

    Hello everyone. It seems that the God/Free Will "dilemma" only applies to Omnimax, unconstrained-by-time-Gods: i.e. those who are not only omnipotent, but onmiscient, omnipresent, etc. It makes for a few fun games with words, really. If God knows I'm going to eat oatmeal for breakfast at 6:00...
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