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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