By Ben Russell
If an unbeliever asserts that
contradictions can occur because water, grass, rocks, and material things can
exist at more than one location at one time simply point out that it is not the
case because the properties that make up each individual object are in their
own location in space. For example, with the compound water each molecule is
made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom and each individual atom
takes up only one specific location in space (regardless of their size) but
those exact specific molecules can't be in the same location as of another
location within a single nano second in time which explains why you can have
water in more than one location (such as California and China for example)
except its billions of molecules of the compound water that is mixed together.
That also works with grass, rocks, wood, anything in the universe that is made
of matter that does not have a mind or life based functions (people, animals, etc.)
Plants are not alive from a biblical perspective (unlike the perspective of many
modern day Americans). Accordingly, in the biblical sense--plants, grass,
trees, etc. can individually be multiplied at more than one location at a time
(such as France and America for example) because of the Bible's definition of
what "life" is. We have no scientific based evidence that our
specific DNA, mind, soul, spirit, will, etc. exists outside of our current and
individual locations. Saying that there is no evidence against such an
assertion would commit the logical fallacy called "appear to ignorance."
In fact it would break the law of non-contradiction if exact selves of our
individual selves were also placed outside anywhere of our current exact
locations (such as two feet away, country away, planet away, etc.) but in the
Christian worldview we know it is impossible.
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Mr. Russell is an apologist in
training. You may contact him through this web site or leave a comment.
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