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To: SeekAndFind

“My own point of view is that you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God.”

Can’t really argue with that point. It’s interesting though in itself that that should be the case.


16 posted on 03/01/2019 10:00:01 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
“My own point of view is that you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God.”

Back in the 1980's, Douglas Hofstadter wrote "Godel Escher Bach, the Eternal Golden Braid". Hofstadter had taken over the math column from Martin Gardner in Scientific American.

The book was a math book about artificial intelligence. It won the "book of the year" award from Scientific American when it was published. A person pretty much had to have a college math degree to plow through it. It involved complex math theorems, deep recursive theory, and language and grammars from a math viewpoint.

This book was certainly NOT Christian or God centered. Hofstadter had brought in eastern philosophy when he could. However, early in the book he came to the conclusion that 20th century math theorems seemed to indicate that "Truth was a higher concept than provability". [This got a highlight in my copy.]

He even drew a zenn diagram to show that any theorem which could prove a significant portion of math theory would ultimately lead to amibiguities. Therefore, no system of math could "prove", or disprove, everything.

The statement reminded me that Jesus never attempted to "prove" that He was the Son of God. He just stated: "I am the way, the truth, and the light. No man cometh to the Father but by me."

47 posted on 03/01/2019 10:40:55 AM PST by the_Watchman
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