Religion
In reply to the discussion: What if God's existence were proven without doubt? Good or bad? [View all]gcomeau
(5,764 posts)In order to consider the question of an omnipotent magical being you have to allow for the existence of things like unlimited magical powers in the universe. And as soon as you've done that any talk of "proof" is shot to hell.
Ok, so something happens and it ispresented to you as some all powerful deity doing something spectacular... like, oh, levitating a mountain for you while spelling it's name in the sky with stars.
Wow!!! Proof God exists!!!! Right?
Tell me how you prove that was God, and not a trickster wizard casting a spell on your to make you think it happened. You know, since we're saying magic exists now. As just one among an infinite number of equally likely possibilities which are impossible to assess as soon as you allow the existence of limitless magic powers to be considered at all.
See the problem?
(And please don't quibble over the definition of "magic". Anything calling itself a universe creating deity would by definition need to be possessed of powers that transcended all the physical laws of said universe. That's functionally magic whether someone wants to call it that or not)