Randomized Thoughts

The following proof to the non-existence of God is given by Melbourne philosopher Douglas Gasking. This is a funny counter-proof for the ontological ‘proof’ of the existence of God devised by St Anselm (1033–1109). Though Gasking has not proved the non-existence of God (Anselm had not proved the existence either) it makes an interesting read. The Gasking's proof is given below.

(1) The creation of the world is the most marvellous achievement imaginable.
(2) The merit of an achievement is the product of (a) its intrinsic quality, and (b) the ability of its creator.
(3) The greater the disability (or handicap) of the creator, the more impressive the achievement.
(4) The most formidable handicap for a creator would be non-existence.
(5) Therefore, if we suppose that the universe is the product of an existent creator, we can conceive a greater being – namely, one who created everything while not existing.
(6) An existing God, therefore, would not be a being than which a greate cannot be conceived, because an even more formidable and incredible creator would be a God which did not exist.
Ergo,
(7) God does not exist.

God a Paradox
Incidentally, omniscience and omnipotence properties that are normally associated to God are mutually incompatible. If God is omniscient, he must already know how he is going to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence. But that means he can't change his mind about his intervention, which means he is not omnipotent.
For example, let us assume yesterday God saw the state of the world on 31st December, 2099 by using his power of omniscience. And today, for some reason God wants to change the state of that future world through his power of omnipotence.
a) If he manages to change the world, then what he saw yesterday was not correct. So it negates his omniscience.
b) If he does not manage to change the world (since it violates the power of omniscience as stated above), it would violate God's power of omnipotence.

So a God, who can see everything and can do anything reduces to a mere mathematical paradox. Can such a God exist?