"Also, what is praying supposed to accomplish? Asking nonexistent entities to do things isn't a particularly effective way of getting those things done."
Arguments that assume what your opponent obviously does not assume ("God is a nonexistent entity") generally don't work very well, regardless of how smug you sound.
How is this interesting? Philosophers have been dealing with questions of Free Will vs. Omnipotence for a LONG time. Some guy applying this discussion to chess isn't interesting at all, given that the discussion has moved far beyond a simple "well, it seems that the two are opposed, therefore God can't be omnipotent." For example, does God's knowledge of what we will do really take away from it being our free choice? What does it mean for God to "know" something? Can we consider God to be subject to constraints of time, or is God "outside" of time altogether?
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They didn't say its a defect; they just said if you're buying an mp3 player to use while jogging, the iPod might not be for you.
"Also, what is praying supposed to accomplish? Asking nonexistent entities to do things isn't a particularly effective way of getting those things done."
Arguments that assume what your opponent obviously does not assume ("God is a nonexistent entity") generally don't work very well, regardless of how smug you sound.
How is this interesting? Philosophers have been dealing with questions of Free Will vs. Omnipotence for a LONG time. Some guy applying this discussion to chess isn't interesting at all, given that the discussion has moved far beyond a simple "well, it seems that the two are opposed, therefore God can't be omnipotent." For example, does God's knowledge of what we will do really take away from it being our free choice? What does it mean for God to "know" something? Can we consider God to be subject to constraints of time, or is God "outside" of time altogether?
Have you tried MoodLogic? Tell it your mood, etc., and it will pick appropriate songs from your mp3 collection.