Can God make a stone so heavy that even he cannot lift it? (Discussion)

[harris7]

Why start a second thread for a question that makes absolutely no sense? If you don't believe in God, why bother analyze that question? If he doesn't exist, then he's not even there to create the rock. And if you do believe in him, you know he can. So what are you trying to figure out?

I am a strong atheist and I love these topics. But for me it is only an exercise in philosophy. To argue we all just must assume that he does exist and have some operational definition of what â??heâ?� is.

Usually when people argue they assume there own beliefs as true but this does not have to be the case. I can, and have, made arguments for God only because I was speaking to an atheist with very weak arguments. And even though they share my overall belief I cannot support an invalid reason for having them.

harris7 Reviewed by harris7 on 10-16-2006. Can God make a stone so heavy that even he cannot lift it? (Discussion) (I started this thread anew because I believe that threads over two pages scare off new posters.) For the record this is a famous philosophical question with no real answer used to prepare the mind to think differently, creatively, and critically. As such I am disappointed to hear the same combative baiting posts by the same people on every other thread on this board. My hope was that posing this question would cause the board to take a new direction and think philosophically rather than Rating: 5