> A descriptor such as "all-powerful" wouldn't be convincing enough to me unless a strong case could be made that the person who used that term really *meant* it in the sense of including even logically impossible acts.

Are you saying the idea of a god, for you, can only be reasonable if the god proves himself to be unreasoning? As i understand it, God's knowledge is above ours, because we're made like him; it's not estranged to us as if we were made wholly unlike Him.

It sounds like you're trying to pose something like the old mocking philosophers' "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" If you don't really want to know whether a god is there, such questions are fine. But if you actually want to find whether there is a god, wouldn't the sensible thing be to begin looking at how a divine being could help the world make sense, rather than how he could defy all rules of sense encapsulated in the world?

Mi *usually skips these things, but after helping open the door, feels a little obliged to step into the playroom* ke