http://board.freedomainradio.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&tag=Logic,theism,evil&orTags=0Search results matching tags 'Logic', 'theism', and 'evil'en-USCommunityServer 2008 (Build: 30417.1769)http://board.freedomainradio.com/forums/p/18188/147825.aspx#147825Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:46:36 GMT59c0a406-59fe-4f33-8532-f7cd028d5483:147825bearded spock<p>I am a fellow agnostic, but I reject your argument.&nbsp; Empirical evidence is neither needed or relevant to evaluating the truth or falsity of a logical statement such as &quot;self-contradictory entities cannot exist.&quot; Logic is not validated by observation. It is validated or falsified&nbsp; by aherence to or divergence from the rules of logic.&nbsp; </p> <p>At the risk of descending into the death spiral of semantics, I will claim that self-contradictory entities CANNOT exist by definition.&nbsp; Either a=b or a/=b.&nbsp; A cannot both equal and not equal b. The JudeoIslamoChristian god cannot exist without distorting language beyond all meaning. Theodicy&nbsp; disproves a perfectly good AND omnipotent god with the existence of evil. Also, it is self-cantradictory to have a perfectly just AND merciful god, without merely defining away the contradiction.</p>