David Hill, "'If God is all powerful, can he make a rock so big even he
can't lift it?'"
David Hill, "I answer, 'Yes, of course He can, He is all powerful.'"
In this classic formulation of the destructive dilemma (between the
either-or horns of which there is no wriggle room), a god could not be
all-powerful if he COULD NOT create an unliftable rock, for he would
then lack the power to build such a boulder, and a god could not be all-
powerful if he COULD create an unliftable rock, for then he would lack
the power to lift it. Either way, there would be something that our
purported deity would lack the power to do.
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