Religion
In reply to the discussion: There is no evidence for the existence of God. [View all]DetlefK
(16,458 posts)They are removed from the constraints of having to deal with facts.
For example, the famous logician Kurt Goedel (a contemporary and friend of Albert Einstein) once wrote a purely mathematical proof that God must exist. (The proof became famous about 5 years ago, because it took that long to double-check it, because it's so complicated. They had to invent an entire new form of algebra for it.)
Goedel's proof rested on a few assumptions of the nature of the universe: First, that everything in the universe can be categorized as either good or bad. Second, good only begats good and evil only begats evil.
With that, he proved that there must be a highest good thing in the universe. Which he then interpreted to be God.
Goedel's proof is nice and all, but not applicable to reality, because in reality you cannot split the universe into clearly good things and clearly evil things. And sometimes good begats evil and sometimes evil begats good.
The whole proof has no connection to reality.