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To: general_re;Aquinasfan
This link *might* work better. DNS is an accronym for Domain Name Service, which is a directory of IP addresses to host/domain names. The link above uses the IP address of ic.net instead of using DNS to look it up, which may resolve the problem.
687 posted on 05/22/2002 1:20:30 PM PDT by scripter
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To: scripter;Aquinasfan
That's got it - thanks. Couldn't even do a DNS lookup to try it myself ;)

I'll read this more closely later, but one particular part jumps out at me upon a quick skimming:

If you say God is bound by logic, then you say that God can do nothing man cannot understand.

He's "bound" in the sense that He can't act contradictorily, or contrary to the laws of logic, but not in the sense that He is inferior to logic, since it is grounded in Him. Understanding is something entirely different, so that your sentence above does not follow. The laws of logic govern the relationships of propositions, theories, and facts. They have nothing to do with the content per se. The most airtight logic in the world will not make a false premise lead to a true conclusion. God understands and sees far more than us in the first place, so that this has nothing to do with logic, but rather, with God's omniscience. Since we are neither out of time, nor omniscient, nor omnipresent, obviously we cannot know everything God knows. This is a limitation of knowledge, not logic.

I've italicized one part here, because it's just dead-bang false. It's completely wrong. Consider the following argument:

P1: All fishes are mammals.
P2: All whales are fishes.
C1: Therefore, all whales are mammals.

A perfectly valid argument, with two completely false premises, but a true conclusion. Oops.

691 posted on 05/22/2002 1:38:23 PM PDT by general_re
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