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Is God Impossible or Kind of Impossible?
A priori justification ain't what it used to be. There was a time when philosophers and mathematicians perhaps thought that when we engaged in deductive, a priori constructions of proofs for claims from propositions that we know to be true a priori, then those conclusions are as justified as anything can be. That is, when we reason deductively and without error from truths that we know without any appeal to the empirical world, then we acquire new knowledge of a broader world.
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Many gods are easily disprovable which is why Christians refuse to define their God when asked.
I heard an interesting exercise in disproving the Christian god from an ex preacher (Dan Barker). He asks Christian preachers and scholars if they can write a chronology of the Passion of Christ. They are allowed to make reasonable guesses if things are unclear but they must not omit any event or contradict the Bible in anything. He makes them agree that for their faith to be valid, such an exercise must be possible.
They invariably agree and promise to return in a few days, they never do because it is an impossible exercise.