<div>Out of curiosity, after looking for "Douglas Stambler" on Google, I just entered my name, "Ted Moffett," into Google search. In the past I have been surprised by what I found doing this. Of course this is not my full name, so I would expect to find numerous hits referring to other people with the name "Ted Moffett," of which there are many in the US.</div>
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<div>The first hit, why I don't know, was a Moscow Vision2020 post that contained the little OP-ED I wrote for the Moscow/Pullman Daily News in February, 2007, correcting misconceptions and errors presented by New St. Andrews librarian Ed Iverson's OP-ED on global warming, that was also featured in the Daily News:</div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2007-February/041709.html" target="_blank">http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2007-February/041709.html</a></div>
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<div>The fifth hit down the first page was a link to content from just last month on Keely Emerine Mix's blog, regarding the post about "The 'Global Warming' On My Deck" comment from a certain local religious figure, which contains a few comments I wrote in response:</div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/2009/04/global-warming-on-my-deck.html" target="_blank">http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/2009/04/global-warming-on-my-deck.html</a></div>
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<div>The seventh and eighth hits also reference Moscow Vision2020 posts, from an exchange with John Harrell and others on Vision2020 in 2002, regarding nudity, women, and so forth... This must have been around the time of Moscow's famous "topless car wash" and the push for the Moscow City nudity ordinance. I am a bit shocked at some of the content I wrote... Not that I now disagree with what I wrote, for the most part, but how "confrontational" my wording was:</div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://vision2020.moscow.com/Archives/2002/0209/msg00519.html" target="_blank">http://vision2020.moscow.com/Archives/2002/0209/msg00519.html</a></div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://vision2020.moscow.com/Archives/2002/0209/msg00496.html" target="_blank">http://vision2020.moscow.com/Archives/2002/0209/msg00496.html</a></div>
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<div>The first hit on the second page, again refers to a Moscow Vision2020 post from 2004, on "What is relative moralism?:"</div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2004-January/007040.html" target="_blank">http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2004-January/007040.html</a></div>
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<div>The sixth hit on the second page refers to Rose Huskey's blog "Cleaning House" from 2004, where the comment I wrote about auroras, "I jump up and down and point and yell when I see auroras . . . some people just never grow up!" appears on the Google search page... Yikes! </div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://cleaning-house.org/?m=200408" target="_blank">http://cleaning-house.org/?m=200408</a></div>
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<div>And the last hit on the second page, refers to a <a href="http://right-mind.us">right-mind.us</a> post from Dale Courtney, referencing a Vision2020 post I wrote from February 2008, misrepresenting what I wrote. </div>
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<div>My post in no way made the statement that, as Courtney wrote, "God cannot be an omniscient, omnipotent, and benevolent because of the coming Hawkins Mall." In fact I wrote "If God is an omnipotent, all knowing and all good being, God does not have a<br>
problem. Only limited beings that lack the capability to comprehend such<br>infinite capacities have a "problem." I was implying in this post that we should focus on solving the problems humanity is creating on Earth, rather than debating why evil exists in a world created by a perfect God</div>
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<div>I did not claim to have "solved the vexing problem of theodicy" as Courtney wrote. I stated it is difficult to say anything new about the problem. To flesh out my meaning a bit, I will explain: </div>
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<div><strong>I implied that given the definition of God as a</strong> "<strong>omnipotent, all knowing and all good being" that such a being cannot have a problem, by definition. This assumption about God's nature is exactly what creates the problem of "evil." If God had limitations, the problem of evil would not be so vexing. I suggested it is because of human limitations that prevent us from understanding a being of unlimited knowledge and power that the problem of evil is so troubling. Thus for humans to solve the problem of evil, we would need much more knowledge and/or power than we have now.</strong></div>
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<div>I should clarify that I am an agnostic regarding belief in a supreme being or creator of the universe, so my comments are offered in the context of how the discussion regarding the problem of God and evil is framed:</div>
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<div><a href="http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2008/02.aspx?PageIndex=2">http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2008/02.aspx?PageIndex=2</a></div>
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