RE: There is no god or gods!
September 25, 2012 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2012 at 12:38 pm by FallentoReason.)
(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.
Welcome Dranu.
I agree with what you say about being able to prove something doesn't exist at times. It's the same for the creation account, which in a lot of ways is like your elephant example. A literal Genesis interpretation doesn't fit into the different areas of science that all point to an old universe.
Anyways, I read your other posts and I saw that you have proof for God. I'd be interested in hearing what you have to say! I was just thinking about a Deist-type god on the way home today and maybe you've got something worth looking at.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle