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Atheists, do you believe that an omnipotent god-being couldn't theoretically exist?
Do you believe that, theoretically, the laws of physics would absolutely prohibit a godlike being to exist?
If not, then god should exist, thanks to the laws of quantum mechanics.
(If you say 'yes', please provide the physical laws that would prevent it. And when I say 'omnipotent', I mean of our universe.)
Eliot - See, that's the thing- this IS proof. But the fact that you regard quantum mechanics as a 'silly notion' shows me that you have no idea how this constitutes proof, and I don't want to explain quantum mechanics to you.
Chris - You're right, it wouldn't permit something that cannot exist to exist.
But that's why my question was, do you think a god-being that is omnipotent of our universe could exists based on the laws of physics? If that is the case, then he/she/it must exist somewhere somehow.
Bear1 - Youu... didn't get the question at all, did you?
Michael - very good points; I would agree with you that an omnipotent-of-our-universe god could not exist within our universe.
However, A higher-dimensional being, for example, could do the things you listed, such as transferring information faster than light (with regards to our 3-dimensional universe) and 'violating' the laws of thermodynamics (not really violating, but it would appear as such from our perspective).
Edit for Michael: there's nothing supernatural about higher dimensions. They exist, and it stands to reason that, if life can develop in 3-dimensional space, it can develop in 4-dimensional space as well.
Regardless, 'higher-dimensionality' was just an example. Many scientists agree that there are also an infinite number of parellel universes alongside ours.
As for snuffing out the sun, that would actually be quite easy if you were a 4th dimensional being. All you'd need do is 'move' the sun out of our universe along the fourth dimension. Boom. We all become really cold.
Paul - actually, there technically *is* an infinite amount of energy. Sorry, mate.
5 Answers
- PaulLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Nope.
Any being existing in any way for 'eternity' would require an infinite amount of energy.
There *isn't* an infinite amount of energy.
QED.
- ZombieLv 77 years ago
A god appearing as a result of natural processes, as you describe, really isn't worthy of the term "god" as humans commonly understand it. That's generously granting that "god" is a coherent concept at all, but there you go.
Could an immensely powerful being that we have difficulty conceiving, and thereby erroneously label it a "god," evolve in our universe? Maybe. I have no way to know. If the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct, sure. Interestingly enough, author Robert J. Sawyer explored this very question in "Calculating God."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_God
> "See, that's the thing- this IS proof." <
No, it is an assertion. I do not accept your claim that such a being would be a "god."
- ?Lv 77 years ago
You're abstracting principles of quantum mechanics FAR beyond the boundaries of the theory. Quantum mechanics might permit all possible configurations of subatomic particles, but it wouldn't permit a particle which does not exist to exist just to be in any given state.
Source(s): I've taken an introductory college-level course on the subject. - Eliot KLv 77 years ago
There is no god until one or more is proven to exist.
There are an infinite number of silly notions that are not true or do not exist, and we haven't the time or interest in disproving them.
- Anonymous7 years ago
There is NO Valid testable evidence that shows a god COULD exist...
(If you say 'yes', please provide the physical laws that would prevent it.
Physical Law?
show me some Valid evidence that a god COULD exist...
