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Can God Be Proved Mathematically?

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It's worth pointing out that Gödel's axioms are commonly thought to be stronger than the existence of God (or gods, or "godlike objects") insofar as they entail modal collapse. Apparently, there are improvements of his argument that work around this, but I have never looked into them.

Oh, the logicians are at it again :-)

I was agnostic for my young life, but as an undergrad, found God in mathematics (specifically algebra and analysis). Now I go to church regularly.

As an algebraist, I don't have the gall to assume I could prove God's existence. I guess that's why I was never fit to be a logician.

God it's a group, right?

(a) No, Betteridge's Law of Headlines.

(b) No, it's fundamentally unknown - belief system lacking (dis)proof. Given the sheer number and diversity of god(s), essentially all of them must be wrong or the multi-faceted nature of a single $GOD is too complex for human understanding. But then it doesn't have to be provable to be useful.

     s,God,Unicorn,g

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