(urth) barrington interview

[Gerry Quinn]

On 15/10/2014 01:03, Dave Lebling wrote:
> You can never prove a negative. Show some evidence that there is 
> something that indicates the positive (as you propose it) might be 
> true. Just saying "we don't know" is both untrue for large swathes of 
> the universe, and basically tendentious without proposing any other 
> view. Sure, you might say "God can do anything" (and I forget if you 
> are in that camp) but show something that indicates that's something 
> that has happened.

I thought of that earlier.  Saying there can be parts of the universe 
where logic doesn't apply is like saying "God is omnipotent, so he must 
be able to make a stone he can't lift".  The best answer seems to be 
that definitions of omnipotence that allow logical contradictions are 
ill-formed.  When the irresistable force meets the immovable object... 
then you must have described at least one of them wrong.

When you talk about a world where logic doesn't apply, then by 
definition you aren't making sense.

- Gerry Quinn