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effective in showing that the Ontological Argument lacks certainty and can prove contradiction. Therefore, of the trilogy, the Ontological Argument is the least legitimate in proving that a Supreme Personal Being who is omnipotent, omnipresent and omnibenevolent exists.
Yet of all these arguments, with the exception of perhaps the Teleological Argument, no argument succeeds more than Borges’ Argumentum Ornitologicum10to elucidate that God, Ergo, exists. Borges’ argument is based on infinite integers and relies on the purity and perfection of abstraction as exhibited, exclusively, in the art of mathematics. Although this argument neither presumes that the cosmos has finality (teleological argument) nor a prime mover (cosmological argument), it is certain in its proof. As in mathematics, if infinite regression and progression exists, God exists.
“I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second, or perhaps less: I am not sure how many birds I saw. Was the number of birds definite or indefinite? The problem involves the existence of God. If God exists, the number is definite, because God knows how many birds I saw. If God does not exist, the number is indefinite, because no one can have counted. In this case, I saw fewer than ten birds (let us say) and more than one, but did not see nine, eight, seven,
10 Borges, Jorge Luis. Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley. “Argumentum Ornithologicum.” NY, USA: The Penguin Group. Viking. 1998. 299
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