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- From: kmc@netcom.com (Kevin McCarty)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Proof of the impossibility of god.
- Summary: proof: by inspection
- Keywords: infinitary logic
- Message-ID: <0=rnpfq.kmc@netcom.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 06:11:56 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.135438.689@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Organization: Self
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- In article <1992Sep7.135438.689@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor) writes:
- >So; I'm sure there must be many posters who'd like to send in their own
- >"Proof of the impossibility of god".
- >
- >As a starter, I'll throw out the idea that the set of numbers of halting
- >machines can't be computable, yet, an omniscient god would know this set,
- >and thus,
- >(being rational (?) ), would have an algorithm to compute them, so they
- >*would* form a computable set......
-
- He knows what this set is by inspection, of course, therefore She
- doesn't need an algorithm to compute its members. ;-) Alternatively,
- 'computable [by God]' is obviously a strictly stronger notion that
- 'computable [by finite human logic]'.
- --
- Kevin McCarty (kmc@netcom.com)
-