Why did I make this proof?
- I am an atheist, I don't believe in God, and people often respond to this with:"Prove that God does not exist!" So, here it is. The proof is formally correct, and thoroughly checked. It contains no errors.

I get a lot of different responses to this proof. Usually people have misunderstood it, and claim it has some error that it do not have. So, before you go and criticize it, be sure you REALLY understand it, especially the mathematical notation, as that is the proof itself, while the text is comments, references and helpful explanations.

The most interesting thing is that their request is based entirely on misunderstandings.

• It cannot be proven.
  When they ask for a proof, they expect the other person to say that it cannot be proven, and then they claim victory. Well, it can be proven, and even when it's not proven, that don't give them victory, because they can't prove their beliefs.

• Proofs.
  Exactly what is a proof? Those who ask for the proof never knows. They very often think they know, and exclaim triumphantly that this isn't a proof. When told that it satisfies all demands of a proof, they get angry. The truth is that they don't know what proofs are or what they are used for. They just use it as an argumentation trick. Since most people don't know what proofs really are either, and admit it, the believers score points by pretending to know it. The object of their game is to make the opponent seem insecure in their knowledge.

• Beliefs.
  Well, they don't know what beliefs are either, but they believe that beliefs are very good and right, and do so vigorously and with great gusto, but with no sense or proofs. A belief is simply the process of making oneself think that something is certain by simply deciding to feel certain, without all that hard work of sifting through experiences and observations, analyzing data, thinking it over, and accepting that it is logically impossible to be absolutely sure of anything.

• Atheism.
  They also believe that Atheism is the belief that God does not exist. Well, it is not. Atheism is the lack of belief in God. So, people like me who generally don't believe in anything at all, and only accept verified knowledge, are atheists. Some of them believe that we have to prove everything. Well, proofs are nice, but not everything can be proven or disproven, so one has to use verification, falsification, and statistics. Knowledge can never be absolutely certain, while beliefs can make people feel certain without really beeing so.

• Scientifically proven.
  This is really an oxymoron, as science does not prove things. It is certain that people who use that phrase do not know what science is, and will not tolerate to be told so. Anyway, science is the process of finding the most likely explanations consistent with the data, i.e. observations. It is thus ultimately a process of judging probabilities.

• Patrick Creehan:
  No, there is nothing evil about the bomb. Nor is there anything evil about an explosion.

  [He was trying to argue that evil does not exist, or something. 2001]

• Dan Kee:
  With the interpretation I used of "all" for the statement "God created all," makes the statement say that God created each individual part--including the evil. The interpretation I used of "all" for "All created by God is good," makes the statement indicate that the creation of the Universe as a whole is good. Unless something good cannot have a part or more that is evil, these do not contradict.

  [He is willfully misinterpreting the word "all", and thereby also misinterpreting the proof. 2001]

• mosbym@:
  Ummmm hello dumb fuck!!!! Uh, I'm not going to even try to read your stupid mathmatical explaination, cause you fucking disprove it yourself.

  [Just to show that I sometimes get emails from aggressive idiots.2001-10]

Most people who protest against my proof, claim that "reductio ad absurdum" is not a valid form of proof. This only shows that they are ignorant and arrogant. The proof that Reductio ad Absurdum is correct, is one of the simplest proofs there are.

New here: 2003.9.25
A very good test of the rational consistency of your views on God.