The Problem of Unfishiness

[ciphergoth]

I am extremely flattered that my favourite atheistic blogger, Greta Christina, has taken a comment I made in her journal and made a post about it. I'm not sure she's quite nailed it on how what she discusses is different from questions like the nature of abiogenesis, but all the same I like the post and am very happy to have played a part in bringing it about.

Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I'm not naming them on purpose because I'm always aware of the possibility that I'm misrepresenting them horribly, so I'll have to stop playing twenty questions on who it is now I'm afraid :-)

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Well, unless I'm very much mistaken, it was me, about sixteen years ago, and I don't mind outing myself :-) I don't think you're misrepresenting me horribly, and in fact seeing this has cheered me up on a day when I was feeling fragile, because I have fond memories of the conversation. I do think there's a basic logical error in Greta Christina's post, and also probably some theory of knowledge that she's missing, but those things are her responsibility and not yours. I feel frubbly for you that someone you admire liked something you said, so between that and not wanting to start feeling fragile again, I won't start a debate about it now. Feel free to ask me over a pint sometime if you want, though...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm so flattered that you remember, and I'm glad you remember that conversation fondly!

To be honest, I mostly try and stay away from the argument from the problem of evil (or similar arguments like the argument from divine hiddenness) because I think it's the wrong argument for atheists to get into, but still I think they are good arguments and I'm always interested to hear about the counters people come up with, so I hope we share that pint soon.