Prove that God exists

[vlad321]

Final-Fan said:

vlad321 said:

Final-Fan said:
Also this means his "theological studies" are actually sheer speculation, handed down from other speculators. Because with no evidence, guessing is all you can do.

You know what's interesting? Before Newton came around, the laws of calculus very much existed, yet no one had any proof for or against it. Guessing was all everyone could do before then.

Right, but as soon as someone says "hey, maybe this is always true in calculus" they can try to prove it or disprove it.  He was saying that not only has that never been possible for God in the past, it will never be possible in the future, so it's not really the same situation. 

But it would be pretty funny if there had been a Church of Calculus making claims about what was or wasn't true about math far before anyone had any reproducible evidence about it. 

That is not particularly true though. Before Newton, the closest person to come close to discovering calculus, I think, was Aristotle, since finding the volume of a sphere uses limits, which is the basis of calculus. Now he was killed by some idiot Romans, and it took the world over a 1000 years to produce someone who could "prove" calculus. You could say that it was very much not possible for us to prove the existance until another brilliant person was born (unlike Einstein, who's discoveries would have been made whether it was by him or not, solely due to where math was at the time). If god can never really be proven or disproven, then whoever bvelieves that is simply an idiot, plain and simple.

I do agree though that a calculus church would have been cool. I guess you can argue theories are like small denominations of some church, which are yet to be proven (or disproven).