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

[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.