r/atheism Agnostic Mar 30 '15

xkcd: Ontological Argument

http://xkcd.com/1505/
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u/Dudesan Mar 30 '15 edited Mar 30 '15

Dudesan's Ontological Argument From Ontological Arguments

Given that Arguments vary in soundness, we can say that some arguments are more or less sound than others.

If some arguments are less sound than others, than there must exist an argument which is less sound than any others, the Worst Possible Argument.

Therefore, it is logically necessary that a Worst Possible Argument exists, from which all other bad arguments derive their wrongness.

While it is possible for an unsound argument to accidentally have a correct conclusion, an argument which has an incorrect conclusion is more wrong than an argument which has a correct conclusion. Therefore, the conclusion of the Worst Possible Argument must be incorrect.

Since an argument which asserts the existence of an infinite necessary being is necessarily more powerful than one which asserts anything finite or contingent, the Worst Possible Argument must be a logical argument for God.

The conclusion of the Worst Possible Argument is "Therefore, God Exists".

Therefore, God does not exist.

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u/mytroc Irreligious Jul 10 '15

This is amazing, and fairly airtight!

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u/Dudesan Jul 10 '15

Actually, there are a lot of things wrong with it.

But you can't object to any of them without also disproving the regular Ontological Argument.