Re: The logic of atheism

Ben Goren wrote:
Paul Holbach wrote:
Ben Goren wrote:

I don't think there's any point in going further until you can
offer up an example of something that's logically possible
but physically impossible. You're making a false distinction
between the two that's simply not supported.

For example, it is logically possible for light to travel at a
speed higher than 299.792.458 ms^-1, but (in our universe) it is
physically impossible for it to do so.

But you answered the question yourself. In our universe, faster-
than-light travel is logically impossible. It requires more than
infinite energy, which is a logical impossibility.

Could one theorize some other universe with a different set of
physics? Sure. But that's completely irrelevant. In our universe,
the speed of light is a logical as well as physical law.

No, because it is true /in our universe/ that it is logically possible
for light to travel at a speed higher than 299.792.458 ms^-1. In other
words, the state of affairs of it being logically possible for light to
travel at a speed higher than 299.792.458 ms^-1 obtains /in our
universe/.
It is the very light in our universe that could have been such that it
travels at a speed higher than 299.792.458 ms^-1.

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