So do you think it is likely that a doppelgänger of Queen Elizabeth exists that is a genetic clone? Do you know how unlikely that is to happen by chance or do you think a supernatural or alien explanation might be possible?
Oh. By 'only one queen elizabeth' you meant that the one person sitting on the throne of England is a unique individual, holding a unique office. Not that there are no other queens named Elizabeth in the world at this moment... Because that was how i read your claim.
So the failure here was you not making your intentions clear. Kinda like calling the Cheetah the fastest animal.
You probably should have said 'the fastest land animal traveling across a surface under its own power over short bursts.'
I'm not saying that there are no other queens that are called Elizabeth. I'm saying that there aren't any genetic clones of her that are a result of chance or design.
Then why wasn't the word 'clone' in your original statement?
But still, i would not have to search the entire world. It would be enough to search Buckingham Palace. because even if a clone of Elizabeth is working as a stock broker in New York, she would not be QUEEN Elizabeth. That's an office. You can't clone an office, esp. of a monarchy. They're kinda mono-holdings.
I'm not completely certain of that. Do you think my provisional belief is unreasonable?
I think making the claim without doing the homework to support it is unreasonable. But here, just noting the age of successful cloning, the age of Queen Elizabeth I and II, and the definition of 'queen' would have been sufficient homework.
You didn't even do it for your thought experiment example....
You're also making the claim that Poseidon might punish unbelievers eternally.
'Might?' Yes, well, as far as you knew at the time you dismissed the threat, he could have.
At the moment I'm only talking about Poseidon, not the other gods and religions.
That's sad, because Poseidon is only an example.
But you're confident enough to make sweeping claims about all the gods not doing something, though you don't know shit about their pantheons or afterlives.
How am I supposed to "prove" to you that Poseidon won't punish nonbelievers eternally?
Please, please, please point to the post where i asked you to do this?
Why do I need to "prove" that Poseidon won't punish nonbelievers eternally.
Please, please, please point to the post where i asked you to do this?
What if I said that cheetahs are faster than sloths? There is the possibility that there are sloths that no-one has seen that are super-fast.
Then make it a defendable claim, ExC. Say 'cheetahs are faster than any sloth is capable of traveling across a surface, to th beast of our knowledge.'
In the same way there is a possibility that Poseidon would punish non-believers eternally.
Then how did you dismiss the possibility in the first place?