(November 25, 2010 at 5:31 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote:(November 25, 2010 at 3:58 pm)theVOID Wrote: The curse of Ad HocI must admit I would in some ways hate there to be a definitive proof of gods non-existence as it would rather limit the fun of such debates. What about:
Anyway, I tried out your Free Will argument and it works really well, It stumped a theist mate of mine (though to be fair that happens often)
1. If god exists then he is infinite (from necessity)
2. There are no actual infinites (from Hilberts hotel)
3. Therefore god does not exist
But what Craig cites as a contradiction (that the members of a subset of infinity can be placed in one-to-one correspondence with the members of the whole set) is not considered a problem by mathematicians; it is just a feature of infinity that does not feature in finite sets.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
