entropy vs. life from non-life

[Data]

You realise we get this argument every single week, and each and every one of you is hilariously wrong. If you had but used the 'search' tool, you would have found countless thousands of threads about this particular subject.

So much so that our resident physicist has buggered off, he just can't handle the rampant stupidity.

/leaves thread.

 

[meshnaster]

Do you realize that, by definition, nothing that occurs can do so without the permission of an all-powerful being? God doesn't have Plan A and Plan B, He has a plan. Period. If he chooses not to use his all-powerfulness to instantiate some part of His plan, then that becomes part of His plan.

This talk about "His origional[sic] plan and purpose" and the convoluted machinations needed to restore it is sheer nonsense.

i can't figure out what definition you are using. an all-powerful being is capable of not doing things, so it is possible for things to go against God's plan.

 

[Randall McNally]

i can't figure out what definition you are using. an all-powerful being is capable of not doing things, so it is possible for things to go against God's plan.

It is, but only if the all-powerful being decides that it should be the case that things go against its plan. If the APB creates a plan, then part of his plan (meta-plan, if you will) is that things can happen contrary to the plan. That's easily deducible from the definition of all-powerful.