Because you avoid answering my question, which is to demonstrate a simple point: just because an event has a low probability doesn't mean one can just eliminate it completely. Actually I didn't even claim that the Buddha knows everything, I simply said that given the suttas' premise about the supernatural powers, if that is true, then it'd be false to rule out His knowledge about the shape of the earth (here). Ven Bodhi's related note about this topic:Mr Man wrote:santa100, you really don't seem to be making a great deal of sense.
So my question for you is: do you think it's impossible for the Buddha to know the shape of the earth given that He directs his mind toward investigating it?MA explains that part of the statement is valid is the assertion that the Buddha is omniscient and all-seeing; the part that is excessive is the assertion that knowledge and vision are continuously present to Him. According to Theravada exegetical tradition, the Buddha is omniscient in the sense that all knowable things are potentially accessible to him. He cannot, however, know everything simultaneously and must advert to whatever he wishes to know. At MN 90.8 the Buddha says that it is possible to know and see all, though not simultaneously, and at AN 4:24/ii.24 He claims to know all that can be seen, heard, sensed, and cognized. This is understood by the Theravada commentators as an assertion of omniscience in the qualified sense. Also see Milindapanha/Miln 102-7.