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What am I arguing, Hugh?

That's not the king James version. Now quote my earlier answer

What makes you think buns are treacle numbers, Hugh?

How? Becuase you say so? The word of Gregory. Gregory, a man who thinks Descartes wrote 5 meditations, says so. What does it say, Gregory? Quote it. K...

I refer you to my earlier answer.

Well, that's 1 minute (a.k.a. 100 million years) I am not getting back . Thanks.

Yes, thought so. So you were just repeating something you'd already said and that I had already addressed. Anyway, I recommend moisturizing your knuck...

Quote?

No. Not if that's not this place. See? Any bulbs in there at all? Now, once more: do you think 6 days and 4.54 billion years are the same?

Read the OP. I did not deny that Genesis says God created a place. I deny that there is any compelling reason to think it is here. Christ almighty, yo...

Look up 'question begging' and then read the OP and then try and say something relevant to it.

So?

What about it?

See?

I have only read Genesis. But anyway, you've nothing to add here - all you're going to do is repeatedly tell me what Christians typically believe and ...

Again, question begging. Read the OP. There's nothing irrational about my interpretation. There's everything irrational about the traditional one. Loo...

Again, it's question begging to interpret it as you have done. I think you just can't see this. I mean, why not quote Genesis at me?

Hebrews 11 3 says "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things w...

Er, okaaay. Good one.

You're not a very subtle person are you? Read Genesis 'without' assuming that 'the earth and the heavens' refers to here. Don't be dumb. Don't think "...

All I am arguing here is that nothing in the concept of God or in Genesis (or, I suspect) in the bible commits a Christian to the belief that God crea...

There's no difference. Note too that I did not say God did not create anything (although that too would be entirely consistent with being omnipotent, ...

Yes, I am sure you do. And that makes you a what?

Did you read the OP?? This world appears to have been created incredibly slowly. The place described in Genesis is created in 6 days. The place descri...

Christ! Provide evidence that a Christian 'has' to believe the world was made by God. Stop just saying stuff.

What?

Oh do read the OP. Stop just saying stuff. Remember when you thought Descartes wrote 5 meditations?

Again, you are just begging the question. You already think christianity is stupid, yes? That, for you,is in the bank. You think it,so it must be true...

But if the bible does not say that God created the world, and if the concept of God does not imply it either, and if supposing it to be true creates p...

Focus.

I am saying that Genesis is not an account of God making this world. The place described does not resemble this one and to insist it is this place gen...

The OP isn't about that, is it? It's about the coherence of Christianity and whether there is any justifying reason why Christians typically believe G...

That's question begging. You are just assuming at the outset that God does not exist and that christianity is bollocks, yes? Stop that.

Yes. You think you already know that God is unknowable. That's both extremely arrogant and obviously confused, for if you don't know anything about Go...

What was the point of that post?

But that kind of argument does not get one to God, but to uncreated things. That is, from the fact that there are created things, one can conclude tha...

I think the burden of proof would be on the person who thought God did create the world. There seems no positive reason to suppose God created this wo...

No, some people believe what they think they have reason to believe and stop believing what they recognize they do not have reason to believe. Not ber...

Yes. I think that's what you are. Again, relevance to the OP??

Again: you're not focussing on the issue. Does the concept of God - defined as I defined God - entall that God created the world? No. Does the bible c...

OMG. Did you read the OP? It's true by definition. What did I say someone who quetsions that is? Focus on the issue.

When it came to my dinner invite examples, I wouldn't be surprised if you thought that the thing to focus on is how nice pasta and ragu is. Shall we g...

No, you don't seem to understand at all. And you don't seem to understand what a proponent of the problem of evil believes either. My argument is addr...

As my argument here is directed at proponents of the problem of evil, it would depend on whether milder evils are considered by them to be incompatibl...

You don't seem to understand the example.

No matey, you're just rude: Those were opening comments of yours. This: is forceful. I am not illogical. Your OP does not contain an argument. I don't...

Oh, I very much doubt it, vicar. For you just criticized me there, didn't you? Tut tut. Yes it does. How doesn't it? A proponent of the problem of evi...

I take it there is a limit to what we owe to others? If, for example, the only way your life could be saved is if I stop eating all of my favourite fo...

First, that post was not addressed to you, was it. It was addressed to god must be atheist. He had, in another thread, just make the following remarks...

The absurdity of the procreator proponent of the problem of evil's position is becoming increasingly apparent to me. Jane wants to invite James over f...