If God is all-powerful and there is at least one entity known to be able to exist outside of the/a universe, then he must be able to create another one.
You don't need the middle bit, do you? Even if there isn't an entity outside the universe, he's not all powerful if he can't make one.
Saying he leaves time until last doesn't mean anything where time doesn't exist.
Why yes, which explains my cranial pain.
However, in order to parse the idea of the universe being created, we are applying time to the scenario, just to make it work. So there's cheating there already.
But,
if God is all powerful, he should be able to do things that make my head hurt.
Any god that interests me is sufficiently uneffable that I never hope to get it, no matter how many axioms or prophets or holy books.
Or
they're one of the soap-operatic pantheon types.
No. "God created the universe" is not the same as "God crafted all events". It would be the case in a deterministic universe, but that begs the question.
I would say again this is assuming time outside the universe when time is a component of the universe. How can God start off the Universe and let events happen as they will if there is no concept of time outside the universe?
Hey! Is that a cat over there?
Is that a cat over there?
Nope. Flying spagetti monster. Still kinda cute, though, in a noodly way.
I am still working out what HGTV genius decided that baseball stadia need water features. It's so very Disney.
Disney actually copied them when they remodeled whatever they call the stadium in Anaheim now. Royals Stadium is a beautiful ballpark, and was very different from the cookie cutter stadiums that were built immediately before it.
I spent a looong looong time reading this discussion wondering why people kept invoking the Victorian poet Algernon Swinburne.
Why no, I have not the philosophic mind.
Also, my work it is to kill today.
Is that a cat over there?
Is that Schrodinger's cat?
Is that Schrodinger's cat?
Maybe. Maybe not.
(Edited because I can't make up my mind this morning.)
Royals Stadium is a beautiful ballpark
Or it would be, if not for the big fountain in the middle of the outfield. If it's actually located in the batter's blind, okay, that's a funny way to create a batter's blind. If it's not, then it's taking up room that could be cheap bleachers.
Really? I didn't hear LFN kerfuffle. I heard SGA kerfuffle that's just a rehash of eight other stale kerfuffles.
I guess it wasn't a kerfuffle. I think it was just me not knowing Certain People don't get along with Other People. But since I am Switzerland, I shall continue to be oblivious and not care very much.
I might have missed the SGA kerfuffle completely, it's also so far off my radar.
