Saturday 6 August 2022

Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem falsifies Atheism (something I found online)

Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem states:

“Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain basic arithmetic truths, there is an arithmetical statement that is true, but not provable in the theory.”

To briefly state the implications of this:

All predictions about the future are inductive. Outside the circle. In Gödel’s language they are “undecidable propositions.” It’s probable you’ll still have your job next week… but maybe you don’t.

All scientific laws are based on inductive reasoning. All of science rests on an assumption that the universe is orderly, logical and mathematical based on fixed discoverable laws.

You cannot PROVE this. (You can’t prove that the sun will come up tomorrow morning either.) You literally have to take it on faith. In fact most people don’t know that outside the science circle is a philosophy circle. Science is based on philosophical assumptions that you cannot scientifically prove. Actually, the scientific method cannot prove, it can only infer.

(Science originally came from the idea that God made an orderly universe which obeys fixed, discoverable laws – and because of those laws, He would not have to constantly tinker with it in order for it to operate.)

All closed systems depend on something outside the system.

You can always draw a bigger circle but there will still be something outside the circle.

Whatever is outside the biggest circle is boundless. So by definition it is not possible to draw a circle around it.

If we draw a circle around all matter, energy, space and time and apply Gödel’s theorem, then we know what is outside that circle is not matter, is not energy, is not space and is not time. Because all the matter and energy are inside the circle. It’s immaterial.

Whatever is outside the biggest circle is not a system – i.e. is not an assemblage of parts. Otherwise we could draw a circle around them. The thing outside the biggest circle is indivisible.

Whatever is outside the biggest circle is an uncaused cause, because you can always draw a circle around an effect.

If you visit the atheist website Infidels, you will find the following statement:

As defined by philosopher Paul Draper, naturalism is "the hypothesis that the natural world is a closed system" in the sense that "nothing that is not a part of the natural world affects it."

But according to Gödel’s theorem, every system is dependent on something greater being outside the system. Draper's hypothesis cannot be correct. Because the universe is a system, it has to have an outside cause. A cause that is not bound by time, matter, or energy, because it is outside of all those, and they are subject to its control. A cause that cannot itself have any cause, because it is outside the widest circle. A cause that is infinite in every way, because it's not a system that can be encircled. You can call that what you want; I call it God.

Atheism's denial of God flies in the face of a basic law of mathematics.


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