6212 On the Existence of GOD!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Philosopher Stefan Molyneux challenges the existence of God from a philosophical perspective, drawing on decades of study. He defines existence and categorizes entities into three groups: those that exist, those that may exist without proof, and self-contradictory entities. Focusing on the latter, the lecture critiques God's traits of omniscience and omnipotence, posing logical dilemmas. Additionally, the relationship between consciousness and the brain is explored. Ultimately, he concludes that God's existence fails to meet criteria of evidence and logic, inviting reflection on the implications of believing in a non-existent entity.

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0:00.0	All right, so let me do the impossible, at least as some people perceive it, as impossible,
0:07.0	because there's a question floating around on X, which is prove the non-existence of God.
0:16.0	And I'm going to do that in a relatively short timeframe, and not because I'm some sort of blinding genius or anything like that.
0:26.2	I've been studying philosophy for 44 years, and I was raised Christian.
0:31.9	I became an atheist.
0:33.1	I'm very sympathetic to Christianity and very positive to a lot of Christian ethics.
0:40.2	So rest assured that this is no disrespect to Christian virtues as a whole, but the question of the existence of God is
0:46.1	something that can be disproven, despite what of course a lot of people believe. So I will do that,
0:52.7	and hopefully this makes sense to you. And of course, if I've erred
0:56.3	in my reasoning or my definitions, please, please, please tell me, I do not want to get this wrong
1:01.9	for peril of my potentially eternal soul. So, when we say, does God exist? What we're doing
1:10.3	is we are creating a category called existence,
1:15.2	not existence like the general purpose, everything that exists, but we've got a category called
1:21.4	exists. So we have to define what does it mean to exist. And then we have to figure out if God as a concept fits into the category of that which exists.
1:37.8	So think of a doorway with an open door, right? The door exists, but it does not bar you from walking through
1:47.3	when the door is open. It bars you, of course, when the door is closed, which is the sort of point
1:51.8	of a door, so you have existence. If you have been a bad teenager and you have some, I guess,
1:59.4	pretty aggressive parents, then your parents might do
2:02.8	something like, take the door off the hinges, right? So you had a door, you don't have the door
2:10.8	anymore. The door does not exist in the door frame. The door may exist in the basement or,
2:16.0	you know, some other place or whatever, but the door does not exist in the door frame, and therefore you can walk through it.
2:21.9	If you have a tree in your front yard and it is putting too much shade on your house and you want
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