can God in her omniscient, omnipotent wisdom create a rock that is so
heavy even God herself cannot lift it? ;-)
Kim Jones
On 22/11/2005, at 12:45 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
> Yes - I believe this is the logical problem with omniscient beings.
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:28:16PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>> George Levy writes:
>>
>>> Along the line of Jorge Luis Borges a blackboard covered in chalk
>>> contains
>>> the library of Babel (everything) but no information. Similarly a
>>> white
>>> board covered with ink also contains no information.
>>> Interestingly, information is minimized or actually goes to zero
>>> when the
>>> world is too large as the plenitude, or too small. Information is
>>> maximized when the world is neither too large nor too small. We
>>> live in a
>>> Goldilock world.
>>
>> Can we talk about knowledge or intelligence in a similar way? A
>> rock is
>> completely stupid and ignorant. A human has some knowledge and some
>> intelligence (the Goldilocks case). God is said to be omniscient:
>> infinitely knowlegeable, infinitely intelligent. Doesn't this mean
>> that God
>> is the equivalent of the blackboard covered in chalk, or the rock?
>>
>> Stathis Papaioannou
>>
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