Why do you think complexity implies contingency?Universe has to have a beginning, has to have a creator but something that is by definition more complex than the universe needs neither.
^And that's why religious people are mocked, just stick to faith and quit pretending as if there's a logical argument for God.
@bold: There certainly are logical arguments for God. Do you not know what apologetics is?
An excerpt fromcan god create a boulder or rock, so heavy, that not even he himself can lift it?:Sparks:
You must be registered for see links
:tl;dr: Omnipotence doesn't need to include the ability to actualize incoherent states of affairs which is exactly what your question talks about since anything that overpowers a being which cannot be overpowered is incoherent and as such represents a nothing at all."The problems will be analysed on the concept of omnipotence because the stone argument is by far the most common one used so it should be easier to understand. The crucial flaw in these types of objections (and especially this one) lies in their misunderstanding of the concept of omnipotence. To elaborate, omnipotence here is improperly asserted as the ability to perform certain tasks (even more so blatantly physical ones). While this may be a plausible notion of omnipotence for some theistic conceptions of God, I find an alternate meaning to be mandatory in order to properly describe omnipotence in the context of classic theism and, even more specifically, the 3 abrahamic religions.
What could this alternate meaning be? Well, as the all-time classic essay „Maximal Power“ says, omnipotence should be understood as the ability to actualise certain states of affairs. Understood this way, we have a perfectly legitimate way out of the skeptic's scheme. I'll return to the example in which the atheist lays out the objection that „If God is all powerful He should be able to overpower Himself“, now what is actually being said here? The being with the ability to actualize all states of affairs should be able to actualize more than all states of affairs. The absurdity should be apparent, for how can a being actualise more than all states of affairs? What is being insisted here, I think this should be apparent by now, isn't actually a task to be performed (so even if we went by the atheist's original conception of omnipotence there would be no problem) instead it is meaningless gibberish – a logical impossibility. "