But not for ‘God’ as the label we put on the answer to the question (which we do not know), “Why is there anything, instead of nothing?”
See https://www.facebook.com/notes/carl-g-estabrook/herbert-mccabe-op-god-and-creation/10153640869347474 <https://www.facebook.com/notes/carl-g-estabrook/herbert-mccabe-op-god-and-creation/10153640869347474>
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> On Dec 24, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 24, 2015, at 7:56 PM, JOANNA A. wrote:
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>> Prime numbers are one thing; god... a little more complicated.
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>> yes, "god" (common noun/expletive/placeholder, etc.) is complicated. But "God" (proper noun) is very simple (simplicity being a universally recognized Divine Attribute) and the nonexistence of any entity corresponding to that Name is easily provable. (If, as the Buddha taught, all existing things come about through "conditioned origination," how can a totally unconditioned entity like "God" possibly exist)?
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>> On Dec 23, 2015, at 7:15 PM, JOANNA A. wrote:
>>> atheism is a difficult position inasmuch as it is not possible to prove a negative
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>> This is one of those truisms that virtually everyone repeats, yet it is totally UNtrue. It is perfectly possible to prove a negative. That the Knight's Tour does not exist is definitively proven, as is the proposition that a highest possible prime number does not exist. It is far, far easier to prove just as conclusively that God does not exist.
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>> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
>> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
>> kindling in measures and going out in measures.
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>> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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