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Wildstar To Launch On June 3
An anonymous reader writes "Carbine Studios, a game company founded by former Blizzard developers, has been working on a new sci-fi MMORPG called Wildstar. The game has now gotten a release date: June 3rd. Rock, Paper, Shotgun's preview described the game thus: 'it's trying to out-MMO every other MMO. Not with big talk of moving narratives or ever-changing worlds, but by ramping up the unreal theme pack nature of its peers and predecessors. This is a game where you're constantly presented with a legion of things to do, numbers to increase, boxes to tick, things to collect, factions to impress, points to earn, monsters air-dropped in to battle without warning and/or preferably all of the above simultaneously. It might even be too much, too overwhelming in its parade of sideshows.'"
I can prove that God is not omnipitent and therefore does not exist. Can God create a rock he cannot lift? Either way, there is something he can't do, therefore he does not exist. Therefore there is no intelligent design, therefore evolution exists.
Mean what you say...say what you mean.
Yes, God can create a rock He cannot lift. God can create a rock he can simultaneously not lift and lift. God can be omnipotent and powerless at the same time. God can be in two places at once. God can understand women. God can order a Big Mac that looks just like the one on the menu.
Stop being so linear.
You are using one word in different contexts in the same question and expecting one answer for all of them. Is that supposed to be clever? It's not. Here are the answers with the context in quotes: US Law: Yes all men are created equal. Biological: No, some people's DNA plays nasty tricks on them. Soviet Cold War Era: All men are equal but some are more equal than others. US Society: He with the gold makes the rules. He born to gold is a lucky bastard. Depending the context there are different answers. You are using light and mirrors to try and prove your point. Good luck with that. As to the limit of reality, humans certainly don't know the nature of the universe, and probably never will. Maybe in 2 or 3 billion years. I think that you should get off your high horse, because in truth it's falling over.
Mean what you say...say what you mean.
Your argument is fallacious. You equivocate on the word "can't."
The assertion is: God can create objects of any size and mass. God can also move objects of any size and mass. This is because God is without limitation.
The statement "God can't be limited" has the grammatical structure of a limit, but semantically it is not itself a limit but rather a denial of limitation. This is the sense in which you use the word "can't" in the first phrase "God can't create [a limitation on himself]... In your second phrase, "...that God can't lift" you are using "can't" in the ordinary, limiting sense of the word.
So you appear to be pointing out a contradiction, but it is because you are using two different meanings for the same word. This is equivocation, and it is demonstrably unsound.
This rebuttal does not prove the existence of God, of course, but it does demonstrate that the concept of limitlessness is not inherently self-contradictory. And no magic or fairy dust is needed, just clear-headed semantic analysis.