We might suppose for example that in some weird infinite way, God’s knowledge loops back in on itself to include even its own knowledge about itself. Omniscience would surely include knowledge of those things known only in a Gödelian way. So an omniscient God does not exist.Īlthough it’s superficially seductive, I don’t think this argument is valid. Therefore, someone might argue, Gödel has proved omniscience, that is, knowing all ideas together, to be impossible, since he’s demonstrated that there would be some things knowable about this set of ideas only from outside this omniscient state. But Gödel’s theorem says that there are some things that cannot be known (ie proved) from within a given system of ideas, such as mathematics, but only seen as true from outside it. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.” Russell, Prologue to Autobiography.ĭoes Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem prove the non-existence of God? Consider: if God is omniscient, then by definition he must be capable of knowing everything. “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. SUBSCRIBE NOW Books Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis et al Grant Bartley scrutinizes an epic graphic biography of Bertrand Russell.
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