Disproving God: Using Probabilities of Possible Worlds to determine the likelihood of God’s Existence
Lucio Maffei
This paper seeks to break what I call the Theist-Atheist Stalemate – atheists say God can’t proven and theists say that God cannot be disproven, seemingly arriving at an en passé where no affirmative stance can be taken on divine existence. My hypothesis we actually can break this stalemate for the atheists and functionally disprove God. To demonstrate that, this paper will delve into an investigation into the most basic structure of our universe. Using this information and some determinations about the nature of statistics and large numbers, we will evaluate the likelihood of God’s existence in a sea of inconceivably many possible worlds. This will be done through a series of premises and conclusions that come to the ultimate conclusion that the probability of God’s existence is unimaginably close to zero.
A Senior majoring in Political Philosophy and Ethics, Lucio Maffei loves discussing philosophy and thinking about the questions foundational to our universe. His philosophical interests are in metaphysics, philosophy of law, and utilitarian ethics. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Aurantium.*
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