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- From: ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Proof of God's Existence
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.141141.28788@dde.dk>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 14:11:41 GMT
- References: <17ui6kINNsft@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <Btw9nH.BIE@world.std.com> <1992Sep1.213206.18901@griffin.itc.gu.edu.au>
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- jchen@tomahawk.me.gu.edu.au (Jinghong CHEN) writes:
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- >Proof of God's inexistence:
- >God can do anything.
- >So he can make a stone which he cannot lift.
- >So he cannot lift that stone.
- >So "God can do anything" is wrong.
-
- To put your argument another way:
-
- Proof of God's inexistence:
- God can do anything.
- So he can make a snax fnyf muski.
- So he cannot luffe puqu mi.
- So "God can do anything" is wrong.
-
-
- What I'm trying to say is this: Your statement "God can make a stone which
- he cannot lift" is intrinsically nonsensical. It makes no more sense than
- "snax fnyf muski". Your statement just happens to be syntactically well-
- formed, whereas my statement does not.
-
- What you have expressed is a paradox. On the same lines as "this sencetence
- is false". It is easy to formulate paradoxes, but the possibility to
- formulate a paradox does not prove that what the paradox talks about is
- untrue.
- --
- Claus Tondering
- Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
- E-mail: ct@dde.dk
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