RE: Four proofs of the nonexistence of God
July 18, 2017 at 11:17 am
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2017 at 10:11 am by Mister Agenda.)
SteveII Wrote:mordant Wrote:We don't know it for sure. There's a hypothesis gaining ground the the universe is eternal, which could be true in several different ways. What we see as an origin point may simply be the limits of a cyclic process, or may arise out of the multiverse. Time breaks down and has no meaning at the extremes of the Big Bang or the heat death of the universe, so has no real endpoints. The math indicates that time as we know it doesn't exist as you approach the BB and it is meaningless at the other end of things where everything is evenly distributed and inactive, so there is no way to measure or utilize time.
Just another example where actual reality is more amazing than bronze age fairy tales.
As for how that would "prove" there's no god, it wouldn't. God isn't necessary to explain reality, after all. In any case, your god is an unfalsifiable proposition, so I can't make any supportable knowledge claim for or against it. I can only say there's no substantiation for it and therefore no valid reason to afford belief to it.
An actual past infinite number of cause/effect events is not logically possible. We would never have gotten to the present event. There must be a first cause.
Can you provide a mathematical proof for that? If not, all you know is that it violates your intuitions and you can't wrap your head around it. Actual reality is not obliged to be intuitive. No apparent paradox has ever prevented reality from working the way it actually does, no matter how illogical it may seem (see Zeno). If there actually is an infinite past sequence of events, then it only seems paradoxical. I've got no investment in an infinite past, I'm just not aware of a proof that it can't be the case.
My personal opinion is that the most likely case is that there is a first cause (and many first causes for other cosmos), and it happened the instant that time began. But I'm comfortable with the possibility that I could be wrong.
Brian37 Wrote:mh.brewer Wrote:I asked god over to coffee and cookies, it didn't show. PROOF!
Yesterday on Twitter a theist posted this question, "Surely there are things you are unaware of that are true?"
I responded, "So Angelina Jolie is really secretly in love with me? AWESOME! Now all I have to do get her to tell me that face to face."
I've always like what Hitch said about naked assertions, " That which can be asserted without evidence can be just as easily be dismissed without evidence."
Of course I believe there are things I'm not aware of that are true. The first thing that someone who says that something I'm not aware of his true should do is explain to me how they're aware of it. Then I'll scrutinize their reply and determine if their claim is supported enough to make even considering that it might be true, justified, taking into account Bayesian reasoning.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.