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Logos01 comments on How confident is your atheism? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Logos01 19 June 2012 12:12:32PM 3 points [-]

I don't buy it. A superhuman intelligence with unlimited power and infinite planning time and resources could create a world without suffering even without violating free will. And yet we have cancer and people raping children.

Comment author: gwern 19 June 2012 01:33:30PM 3 points [-]

A superhuman intelligence with unlimited power and infinite planning time and resources could create a world without suffering even without violating free will.

Oh, it did try. Unfortunately, Adam exercised his free will in the wrong way. Better luck next universe.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 26 June 2012 08:10:31AM 3 points [-]

Perhaps betting huge amounts of other people's suffering on Adam's ability to resist eating an apple was a really stupid idea.

Comment author: Logos01 20 June 2012 07:22:41PM -1 points [-]

"If it weren't for my horse, I never would've graduated college." >_<