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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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