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Ok, bear with me here, this is fairly long and complicated. Ok, so the Bible says and constantly emphasizes how god know everything about all existence to the fullest degree, right? If anyone tried to stick that into a human brain, or a hard drive, it wouldn't fit, just not big enough. The universe is infinite, it is always growing, so God would then have to have an infinite brain. But with in an infinite universe, an infinite brain would take up ALL of that space, there would be no room for us, Earth, the Sun, or anything. But we are here, and therefor god can't exist, or we wouldn't be here, since knowing everything would require an infinite-in-size brain, which would blot all other existence out, but since we exist, he can't exist. Are you still following me? Opinions?

2007-01-31 11:56:59 · 30 answers · asked by Jon 2 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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your thinking way to hard about this. have a cup of tea and a biscuit and relax.

2007-01-31 12:02:45 · answer #1 · answered by thuddie 3 · 4 1

Yes, assuming God has a physical body on the material plane and his brain worked exactly like a human brain and he had no Godly or magical powers then your logic is faultless.

But if God was not a totally physical being or had powers beyond normal biological creatures or lived in some ethereal or otherwise spiritual form then you have not disproved God.

So you have basically proved that the God described in the Bible is either not a giant human or has Godly powers that allow his brain to be more efficient than a human brain.

Also there are more religions with more interpretations of God than just the Bible. How does your argument disprove Zeus or Odin who don't know everything? Or the God of Zoroastrianism - Ahura Mazda? If you want to disproved God then you really should state WHICH God you want to disprove.

Anyway those are my thoughts. You should revise your argument a bit and try it again - the basic idea is quite clever.

2007-01-31 12:26:00 · answer #2 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0 1

To start off I don't believe in god. The problem with your argument is that you are making assumptions. For example, god has a brain, and that god takes up physical space. There are a lot of people who don't see god as a person or even as something that exists somewhere in this universe. Sort of like you have thoughts and they exist but they don't take up any space in the universe. To prove something you can't assume anything.

2007-01-31 16:50:52 · answer #3 · answered by justin 2 · 0 1

Some great thinking, there, but Nah.

You're assuming knowledge takes up space and that God has a physical brain as humans do. Both are specious assumptions which invalidate the argument.

It's considered impossible to definitively prove a negative, so you've picked a thorny argument to make.

Here's something to think about:
Can God make a rock so heavy God can't lift it?

2007-01-31 12:06:25 · answer #4 · answered by bumsteadowl 3 · 4 0

First i will pre-face: i'm agnostic, besides the reality that I lean a dash greater in direction of the atheist ingredient. i don't think of that technology "disproves God", despite if it does disprove particular religions - or a minimum of, particular components of religion. the element with Christianity is that it incredibly is obscure. There are literalists, who think of that each and each be conscious in the Bible is fairly authentic. For a literalist, the Bible isn't probable like minded with evolution. as a consequence, evolution disproves Christianity. despite if, there are others who see the Bible as greater of a metaphor, and to not be taken actually. For those human beings, you would be Christian and have faith in evolution. needless to say there are some (specifically now non-existent religions) like the Greek pantheon, that are patently disproved by faith. We needless to say be conscious of now what reasons a super form of the flaws that the Greeks used faith to describe. all of us be conscious of what reasons volcanoes, storms, the changing of seasons, and so on. To the Greeks, they mandatory to make up Gods and Goddesses to describe those issues, for the reason that that they had no different clarification. for my section, based on the above paragraph, faith is largely this: a means to describe the flaws which you don't be conscious of or can't clarify. i think of that the Bible substitute into meant to be taken actually (while it substitute into written), and that the "it incredibly is in basic terms a metaphor" is a sort of "adaptive tactic" to allow Christians who think of evolution sounds real looking to accept as true with the two issues at as quickly as. the element is, whilst technology can disprove particular religions, it can't, nor will it ever be able to disprove the existence of God or different gods. there is merely not something we can do - there is not any try which will let us know if a God exists or not. despite if we did someway locate out that the super bang substitute into brought about by some time-warping alien race, then human beings will ask: "properly a God could have created those time-warping extraterrestrial beings." it incredibly is an countless dilemma, and one that could never fairly be replied. So in precis: technology/evolution can't disprove God, despite if it could disprove religions. hence, technology and God can stay alongside one yet another, and technology and faith can stay alongside one yet another based on the religion.

2016-10-16 09:29:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

not a bad thought but its absurd to think infinite knowledge would take up more space than average knowledge. also we think of god in a spiritual sense, hence spiritual doesn't take up physical space, which implies that even if god did have an infinite size brain, then his infinite size brain would exsist in the spiritual realm and therefor we would not have a place in heaven when we die b/c his brain is taking up all the spiritual space.

2007-01-31 13:48:36 · answer #6 · answered by sexy joker 6 · 0 0

Actually, because He exists, we exist. We could not exist without Him because He is the Creator and we are the created. Also, you don't address the fact that the Bible says that God is spirit which means that He would have no physical brain to take up any space. He is omni... present, knowing, powerful, etc existing out side the constraints of space and time (which He created). I think your question is interesting but you haven't disproved the existence of God. The fact that you are able to think on such a plain PROVES that God is real because He created you (and all of us) with the capacity to think, reason, and ponder such things. He is truly awesome!

2007-01-31 12:39:04 · answer #7 · answered by Blessed 5 · 2 1

I think you are placing limitations on the mind of God. Our finite brains can't fathom infinity because we live in a world or dimension that has finite boundaries. You are also making an assumption that just because the creator's wisdom and knowledge is infinite it would require infinity to store it. Not so.
Consider how large computers were when they were first invented. Now we hold them in the palm of our hand.
But I admire how much thought you put into it.

2007-01-31 12:35:47 · answer #8 · answered by Slimsmom 6 · 1 1

Nice try!
The universe is not infinite though because to expand or grow there needs to be space outside it to grow into, God therefore could be outside the Universe and who knows what form or size his brain would need to be? We only use 10% of our own. He'd use 100% of his perhaps.
Now try proving he does exist??

2007-01-31 12:24:38 · answer #9 · answered by willowGSD 6 · 2 1

Actually, if you think about it, which I don't think you did, you would see that since God is ALL things, we would have to be contained in his infinite "brain" as you call it and if it is still growing then more and more is being crammed into it at ALL times. Thus: Infinite.
Understand?

2007-01-31 13:50:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

It’s important to contemplate this sort of concept with an open mind, unbiased by the opinions of others. Forget everything you’ve ever read, heard or thought about God and try to reconsider, (or better yet - try to meditate), on what your inner-most instinct tells you about the subject.

For what it’s worth, I believe in God, but my definition of God is so different than the way churches define God, that most Christians would think that I didn’t believe at all.

Lastly, the most problematic issue concerning this topic is that we often attempt to explain meta-physical phenomena using physical attributes; it doesn’t work.

2007-01-31 12:27:00 · answer #11 · answered by steve_monroe_2005 3 · 5 0

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