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- From: cole@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Sandra Stewart-Cole)
- Newsgroups: alt.philosophy.objectivism
- Subject: Re: God exists. Proof within.
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:00:37 GMT
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- In <1993Jan22.223654.7050@mks.com> hugh@mks.com (Hugh Brown) writes:
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- >1. The universe is everything that is.
- > Something that created the universe is not in the universe.
- > Something that is not in the universe does not exist.
- > THerefore, God does not exist.
- >2. From the Objectivist point of view, proof is the reduction of
- > a concept or argument to the perceptable. It involves showing
- > how things exist in reality. If you have soemthing that is outside
- > the universe, that has no material form or appearance, then how
- > could one go about proving that it exists? Certainly not by
- > pointing at it and saying, "There it is." The point here is that
- > the thing is outside of our ability to show and thus not provable.
-
- >Now you may disagree with my thumbnail proofs or with my definitions.
- >I think, however, that they give an indication of a more fertile location
- >to begin the discussion: definitions and fundamentals.
-
- I consider (1) seriously flawed. If you look at the Theist view of God, you
- have a creation picture that has God creating the universe and then inhabiting
- it. If you allow logically an act of creation, it implies an existence of some
- sort apart from the creature of that act. In a sense you also have a definition
- problem with 'creation' since that can mean any of a range of things on a
- physical level, from the establishment of a pre-existing condition which
- deterministically leads to wht we have today, to a creation in situ of
- precisely what we see now, to the establishment of all the various physical
- laws and setting of the various basic constant p[hysical values (like the speed
- of light and the gravitational constant) that structure the universe.
-