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- From: goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart Goddard)
- Subject: Re:Proof of God's Existence
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.183536.8925@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
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- References: <1992Sep1.215331.89956@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:35:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.215331.89956@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
- kevin@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
- > Asides from limitations in the expressive power of mathematics, the
- following
- > will show any proof of the ontic status of God futile.
- > 1. It is possible to imagine a world, completely agreeing with the
- current one
- > on all sensory data, in which God exists.
- > 2. It is possible to imagine a world, completely agreeing with the
- current one
- > on all sensory data, in which God doesn't exists.
- > Call a world satisfying condition 1 M, and a world satisfying 2 M'.
- > Then the existence of these epistemically indistinguishable worlds
- proves that
- >[...] Well, there you have it. No further comment necessary.
- > Kevin Davey
- > Monash University
- > Australia.
-
- Both statements require great leaps of faith (maybe I have seen an
- unconsumed burning bush, the fact of which takes the wind entirely out
- of statement 2). It may be possible for you to imagine a world without
- God, but that's because you don't have the data I have (my kids can
- make 12 baskets of crumbs from only one small pack of crackers!)
- This is an interesting concept: a proof whose validity depends on the
- who the reader is.
-
- Bart Goddard
-