On 24 Jan, 04:58, Alan Wostenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nobody argues the violent and terrible death of grasses is evidence
> against a caring God. Why would they argue the violent and terrible
> death of people is evidence against a caring God?
>
> "If we're bothered theologically here", writes Prusshttp://bit.ly/7sSRUn,
> "it's apparently because we have an inclination to think God should
> have acted differently here". But how, exactly? What does God owe the
> people of Haiti that He does not owe the grasses of Haiti?
>
{snickers} Of course we don't know that there wasn't a 'grass
saviour' that came and saved the souls of all grasses killed in Haiti
just prior to the earthquake. And, no, I'm not positing that as
anything other than a thought experiment. ;-)
> On Jan 23, 8:07 pm, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > You have no idea whether or not grasses are denying their fictional
> > gods.
>
> > The problem here is that we are aware of only a single species that
> > invents gods: ours.
> > The terrible and violent death of people is not proof against god, it
> > is proof against a caring one.
> > When a theist provides evidence that the FSM doesn't exist, I'll
> > provide evidence that his little god doesn't either. I do rest
> > comfortably in the knowledge that something that has no effect on this
> > world, leaves no evidence in or on this world, or is claimed as
> > simultaneously loving and murderous toward this world most likely
> > doesn't exist.
>
> > On Jan 23, 2:07 pm, Alan Wostenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > The haiti disaster did not just kill people. It killed grass, too!
>
> > > But from the fact that grass died, nobody argues God is not. Why do
> > > they argue that because people died, God is not?
>
> > > As Alexandar Pruss points out inhttp://bit.ly/7sSRUn"We are only
> > > really bothered by the problem once we deal with critters that are
> > > conscious and capable of sophisticated lives" Why is this?- Hide quoted
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