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By Austin Cline, About.com Guide to Atheism since 1998

Discussion: God is Not Omnipotent

Monday November 27, 2006
A forum member writes: God cannot be completely omnipotent. There are some things he cannot do. He cannot create a genuine Bank of England ten pound note. He may produce a perfect copy of a ten pound note (complete with a picture of Darwin on the reverse) but it will not be genuine. To be genuine it has to be produced by the Bank of England under the aegis of the British Government. Thus, the Government can do something which God cannot do. (This is why Tony Blair has such a high opinion of himself.)

Can you think of any other things that God can't possibly do, therefore proving that an omnipotent deity is impossible? Read More...

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November 27, 2006 at 2:38 pm
(1) Aaron Kinney says:

This is brilliant. I made a post at my blog about it here.

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