Refract

Sunday, December 07, 2003

In order for someone to claim definitively that there is no god, that person has to actually be god. That is, because it is logically impossible to prove a negative, the only way a person can geninuely make the claim is through an exhaustive disproof of every possibility of god. Because the number of possible gods is inifinite, a person successfully completing this task is consequently omnipotent, i.e. a god. The real conundrum of this situation, however, is that if said person had made this claim successfully, then the claim is false. The disproof of god is actually a proof of a god. However, this results in another apparent contradiction. If god disproves its own existence, which in turn proves its existence, then god has unwittingly failed to meet one of the primary conditions of, well, godliness, perfection, thus, once again, disproving its existence, and demonstrating that god is not, in fact a god. Given this, the person making the claim could not have been a god in the first place, thereby negating the argument. Therefore, as demonstrated by this proof-by-contradiction, it is impossible, under any circumstances, to disprove god's existence.