Fun with Logic
Here you go, kids...
“If a tree falls down in a forest and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
1. The above statement is a question.
2. Questions are made up of words, sentences and symbols.
3. Words, sentences and symbols pertain to language.
4. Language is a concept.
5. Concepts are ideas.
6. Some people express that “Religion” is an idea.
7. Religion teaches that there exists a being called “God”.
8. God created human beings in his own image.
9. Human beings are flawed.
10. Therefore, God is flawed.
11. The Universe is perfect.
12. It is impossible for flawed beings to achieve perfection.
13. Therefore, God did not create the Universe.
14. If God did not create the Universe, then some other being must have done so.
15. By definition, therefore, the being that created the Universe must be perfect.
16. Perfect beings do not created flawed products.
17. Therefore the being that created the Universe did not create God.
18. Therefore, God does not dwell in our universe.
19. God cannot be empirically verified.
20. All things which cannot be empirically verified are reduced to concepts.
21. Therefore, God is reduced to a concept.
22. Only human beings can create and use concepts.
23. Human beings are flawed and therefore create flawed concepts.
24. God is a flawed concept.
25. Ipso facto, human beings created God.
26. The author of this argument is a human being.
27. As human beings are flawed, this argument must also be flawed.
28. All properties that pertain to reality are derivative of the Universe.
29. Thus, reality is perfect.
30. Flawed arguments do not pertain to reality.
31. All flawed arguments are derivative of human beings.
32. As the authors of flawed arguments, human beings do not pertain to reality.
33. All things in existence must pertain to reality.
34. Therefore, human beings do not exist.
35. “Sound”, is a concept held in language.
36. If human beings do not exist then concepts do not exist.
37. If concepts do not exist, then language does not exist.
38. If language does not exist, then “Sound” does not exist.
39. As a concept, “Sound” is dependant on human existence for its meaning.
40. Therefore, without human existence, the phenomena of “Sound” loses its meaning.
41. Therefore, if a tree falls down in a forest, and no-one is around to hear it, it cannot make a sound.
Thus, the answer to the above question must be “no”.