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Letter: Proof of deity

Published 18 December 2007

From Liam O'Keeffe

I enjoyed the article headlined “God’s place in a rational world” (10 November, p 6) but have always felt that scientific debate about the existence of God is futile. After all, how do you disprove something that exists beyond our universe?

Your article did, however, make me think that perhaps there is an experiment that could be conducted to disprove the existence of God. My experiment is based on the hypothesis that it will be impossible to create an artificial intelligence that can satisfy the Turing test and does not believe in God.

Abinger Hammer, Surrey, UK

Issue no. 2635 published 22 December 2007

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