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TIL Omnipotence paradox: Can God create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it? If he can’t, the argument goes, then there is something that he cannot do, and therefore he is not omnipotent. If he can, it continues, then there is also something that he cannot do, and therefore he is not omnipotent.

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1VND TIL a storm uncovered a settlement with stone housing, beds, dressers, shelving and cupboards and jewellery along with a built in drainage system and toilets. It’s over 5000 y/o. The inhabitants lived nearer to the age of mammoths and sabre tooth cats than they did to 2013. Meet the Flintstones…
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OoXkY TIL that ancient Greek & Roman statues were painted bright colors, not left as white marble.
XE4nj TIL Ignosticism or igtheism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because the term god has no coherent and unambiguous definition and/or that every other theological position assumes too much about the concept of god and many other theological concepts.