(September 23, 2012 at 3:01 pm)Dranu Wrote: You ask for the impossible OP, for God is necessarily possible.
To prove something's non-existence can be rather simple (despite this wild claim that says proving the negative is impossible). You prove its impossibility. For instance, I can prove, with near certainty, there is no elephant in my house because it is impossible given the space available and what otherwise exists therein.
Unfortunately, God cannot be shown impossible. Something is only impossible if its existence is contradictory with something. Contradictions exist because of the conflict of limits (e.g. an elephant's physical existence entails it is limited spaciotemporally and can be contradicted by the existence of some other physical thing in its place). God (of the philosophers), by definition is the I AM or the infinite being. Infinite means to lack limits, therefore God cannot admit of contradiction, and therefore is necessarily possible.
Bolding mine. Becuase you can't disprove something does not make it true. How do you know that it wasn't a magical invisible elephant that was really small? Sure, there is no proof, but you can't prove that the elephant isn't there any more than you can prove that a dowsing rod doesn't work. The whole reason that god was defined as infinite was so that he couldn't be disproven. If they had made the mistake of saying that, for instance, he answered prayers, then we could do a test to see if...oh, wait they did that... never mind
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