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Quote: (Originally Posted by Canuckfish)

Whoever said that God can do anything?!?

OK, so omnipotence is out of the window, in the dictionary it says omnipotence means having unlimited power, but we have assessed that god cannot contradict himself, therefore there are limits to his power.

Quote: (Originally Posted by Canuckfish)

God can freely do that which is within His nature.

Once again there are limits to god noted, he can only do what is within his nature. So the omnipotent thing is definitely gone, but still he is a mighty powerful dude in your opinion. Why would an omniscient and omnipresent being create? Was god unhappy? Was god bored? If in the beginning there was only God and god was good, why create a possibility for evil to arise? Why, and god already knew what the outcome would be, create something where more than half of his children would burn for eternity? Is this goodness?

Quote: (Originally Posted by Canuckfish)

And that certainly does not make it so. The theist believes that God is so prevelant that His existence can be seen in everything, even your very ability to reason. Surely that would put the burden on you to prove how you can reason without God..

If he is so prevelant than we wouldn't be having this discussion, there would not be so many different religions with each again so many denominations and surely there would be no such thing as non-believers. There either is this prevelance or their isn't, the belief in prevelance does not relief you from the burden of proof, or you would have to proof the prevelance first, which given the arguements above is already disproven.