Any successful proof of God is not a proof.

It's a mystical experience.

Top proofs and arguments for the existence of God.

I thought it would be fun for us to go through every argument for the existence of God that mankind has made up

and point out where they go wrong.

These will be classical, philosophical, and theological arguments, and frankly, many of them are not very convincing, not very good.

And so I want to dissect and analyze all that with you today.

And in so doing, it's not really about proving God to you, of course.

That would be silly.

It's about looking at the epistemology,

how to do effective metaphysics, if there is such a thing,

and the many traps that come with trying to wrap your mind around God,

because this is where humans make all sorts of foolish mistakes that I'll be pointing out.

Now, of course, a warning is that this topic requires a high degree of open-mindedness and epistemic intelligence, which is rare.

So keep that in mind.

This is a serious, advanced philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, and theology.

And this is going to present a trap for you if you're a scientific materialist or you're an atheist or you're a skeptic.

So be careful with this debunking mindset.

What we're doing here is we're not presenting any kind of simplistic answers or any kind of ideology or belief system.

I'm not a Christian. I'm not a believer. I don't have any faith. I'm not religious.

However, I do have to let the cat out of the bag

because, you know, as I was structuring this talk, I was thinking about how do I present this

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