> From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> The Fool wrote:
> > 
> >> It's idiotic just because you begin with the
> >> axiom that "if God existed, he would act the way
> >> I would act, if I were omni*.*".
> >
> > No he [the god of the bible] would act the way he
> > portrayed as acting. But that contradicts what is
> > written in said book.
> >
> You added another axiom: "God must act the way
> he alllows men to understand how he acts".
> 
> 
> >
> >It is mathematically impossible to proove / disproove that a God
exists. 
> >
> According to Heinlein, it's mathematically possible to prove
> _anything_. An exageration, but in this case it's valid.

Heinlein is wrong.  It has been mathematically proven that it is
impossible to prove or disprove the existence of a god.

> >It is possible to proove that this particular one described by the
bible
> >does not exist.
> >
> Just by adding extra-bible axioms :-)
> 
> See? I am the skeptic, you are the believer. You have faith
> that it's possible to prove the non-existence of the bible god :-P

You define everything In terms of the bible.  I define things in terms of
mathematical objects.
You are the believer.  I am the skeptic.
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