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Re: "God Exists ?" A talk in logic
To the question, Can you logically prove that God exists?, we have not
received an answer in this post. What you have stated was simply that if
we assume god exists, we can attempt to come up with a reasonable
reconstruction of the state of affairs of the universe as it is today.
How is this distuinguishable from say, assuming the IPU exists, and
proceeding with a similar line of reasoning?
You mention the necessity of accepting axioms and building proofs based
on them, but you neglect to mention that axioms need to be both plausible
and verifiable. Of course I could assume that god exists, but this is
neither plausible nor verifiable. I can assume that every existent
object is subject to the following: an object can not be X and not X in
the same way at the same time. You may consider this the law of
identity. Although I can not prove this, I can verify it; it is
consistent with our range of experience. Taken as axiomatic it forms the
basis for rational inquiry; we can not acquire information about a world
which does not contain the identity axiom. Oddly enough, the identity
axiom has a lot to do with why the "God" concept is exceedingly implausible.
-Shea
