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The Mystery of Existence: Why is there something rather than nothing? Part 1 with Richard Dawkins, Jessica Frazier, Silvia Jonas, Richard Swinburne and Jack Symes

Unbelievable?

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The Limits of God's Life

Theism postulates that there are zero limits to God's length of life and zero limits to his power. All the other properties traditionally ascribed to God follow from these properties, such as omniscience or omnipotence. The one very good property which we possess and God does not possess is the power to choose freely between good and evil. But in order to make humans, he must give them bodies in a physical world governed by observable regularities simple enough for them to understand. Unless someone arranged things in this way, it would be immensely improbable that this would happen. And finally, of course, humans will not be able to reason and to make choices unless they are conscious.

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