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Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis et al

Grant Bartley scrutinizes an epic graphic biography of Bertrand Russell.

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.” Russell, Prologue to Autobiography.

Does Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem prove the non-existence of God? Consider: if God is omniscient, then by definition he must be capable of knowing everything. But Gödel’s theorem says that there are some things that cannot be known (ie proved) from within a given system of ideas, such as mathematics, but only seen as true from outside it.

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