Re: Peterson's Death Sentence

From: Parse Tree (account_at_domain.extension)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:36:17 GMT

Noah Roberts wrote:
> Kevin Aylward wrote:
>
>> That isn't the claim. The universe couldn't have been created by an
>> all powerful god, as as already proved, such an all-powerful god can't
>> logically exist. A lesser god, theoretically, could have, but so what?
>
> There are MANY logicians that believe(d) in God. Some even believe(d)
> in an omnipotent God. The omnipotence paradox is VERY old and is still
> debated TO THIS DAY. You have not solved it; I have not solved it; it
> is not likely to be solved for it is one of the problems that questions
> our very method of thought.

There are? They probably believe in the existence of an omnipotent god,
but agree that it's logically impossible.

> That doesn't even bring into account the numerous different philosophies
> of logic of which you are only applying one. In some forms of logic,
> intuitive logic for example, "(P V ~P) = true" is not necissarily true
> unless it is first proven so there would be no paradox.

And one could argue that it is logically possible in a special type of
logic, but that would not change the fact that it is logically
impossible in conventional logic.

> I have also had
> it explained to me pretty adamantly that Godel's Completeness Theorem
> doesn't apply the way it has been here; it was at least used
> incorrectly. (I assume Godel, if I am wrong please point out another
> 'Completeness Theorem' so that I may go investigate - I think it was
> Parse Tree that used it).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%F6del%27s_completeness_theorem

Perhaps the person you're talking to is thinking of Godel's
incompleteness theorem, which is much better known, but applicable to
mathematics, and not logic.

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