User talk:SouthWriter/sandbox/An atheist's objections/@comment-257949-20100810200002

How do we know God is omnipotent and omniscient? Because we cannot comprehend Him, we therefore cannot prove He is omnipotent and omniscient, and subsequently we cannot be sure that God is as strong as he is said to be. By that reasoning, God's very nature is unprovable, and unless something is irrefutably proved - such as the laws of gravity - it is not 'true'.

Oh, and about me talking about 'exit clauses' earlier, I was referring to this:

Fegaxeyl: But God created the universe. And we know that nothing exists outside the universe - or at least, cannot interact with what's inside it. So therefore God, at least in the omnipotent, universe-creating sense, cannot have begun, and therefore cannot exist.

Smallpox: God's power transcends the artificial boundaries that man has created.

This sounds to me like dodging the philosophical base of the question. Rather than challenging how God acts, the answer Smallpox gave is simply 'we don't understand how He works', which isn't, for me, a proper answer at all. I'm not singling you out, Smallpox, I'm just saying that I'm slightly frustrated with these sorts of answers coming back from the religious side of the argument, which say that if it doesn't make sense, God doesn't want us to understand it, or we can't, rather than be proactive about trying to find out why. 'God says so' is an explanation, but it just seems to be cheating the whole process of why it is its own justification.