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- From: holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Proof of God's Existence
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.192528.21285@guinness.idbsu.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 19:25:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.090011.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> hporopudas@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:
- >
- >In article <17ui6kINNsft@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, bubai@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
- >(P.Chatterjee) writes:
- >> I was told by somebody that there is a mathematical proof of God's existence;
- >> was wondering if somebody could shed some light on the same.
- >>
- >> Thanks. Looking forward to the response.
- >
- > I think that God's existence is an axiom. He says in the Holy Bible (Second
- > book of Moses 3:14-15 in Old Testament and also in Johannes 8:28-29 in New
- > Testament) that He is "Existence Himself".
- > If someone is arguing that "Existence Himself" does not exist, I think that
- > at the same time he/she is arguing that he/she himself/herself does not exist.
- >
- > Hannu.
-
- This reminds me of the student who responded to my (true) assertion
- that we can prove in ZF that the universe does not exist (i.e., there
- is no set containing everything) by asking why we were bothering with
- the course (or anything) if there were a mathematical proof that
- nothing exists. It is not a prerequisite for the existence of
- individual objects that the abstract object "existence" exist.
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- The opinions expressed | --Sincerely,
- above are not the "official" | M. Randall Holmes
- opinions of any person | Math. Dept., Boise State Univ.
- or institution. | holmes@opal.idbsu.edu
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