Why GOD is Impossible: A 60 Second Proof
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First question:
What is GOD’s most relevant attribute? In a word, what makes GOD, GOD?
Answer:
“His ability to Create”
Ask your opponent to define creation.
Dictionary definition: The emergence of something where once there was nothing.
GROUND RULE BROKEN
The concept of creation is self-contradictory.
The concept of creation is impossible. From “nothingness”, only “nothing” can emerge. Given that creation, as a reality, is self-contradictory, GOD’s existence is impossible.
Check your watch;
You have just demonstrated the impossibility of GOD’s existence. Your opponent, however, may not yet understand why. There is still time to explain.
By definition, creation requires that nothing initially exist, yet to affirm that from nothingness anything whatsoever could materialize, would be self-contradictory. After all, if someone really wanted to create something, just remember what there would be to work with… nothing! And nothing is nothing, no matter what kind kick-ass illusionist might want to fashion from its confines. Trickier still is the requirement that for real creation to take place, not even the creator could be there; a most unfavorable condition to be for someone who wants to get any real work done.
Indeed the notion of creation is humanity’s most embarrassing oxymoron. Surprisingly, humans have believed in it almost since the beginning of modern civilization. Interestingly, the possibility of creation can not be proven no matter what lengthy arguments are brought to bear. Its impossibility, on the other hand, is easily demonstrated in only seconds.
If your opponent remains skeptical that you have verified the impossibility of the existence of GOD, he or she should remember that they themselves had recognized as self contradictory and, therefore unacceptable, the statements:
This box is void of any content. By adding absolutely nothing, it will have something in it. And...
Joe was never here, therefore he was.
Yet the above are precise paraphrases of the self-contradictions:
1) “Nothing can become something by adding nothing to it" or, 2) Before creation took place, “GOD didn’t exist, therefore, he did”.