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This is another supposed contradiction that Atheists like to throw out to challenge the idea of an all powerful (omnipotent) God. The argument creates a dilemma in that God is either not omnipotent because He cannot create such a thing or He is not omnipotent because He cannot move it. The problem though is not in the dilemma, but with the question itself. The question is logically flawed.
Remember for the Atheist (as I have said before) this is an absurd question. Why a person would want to know if an imagined being could move and immovable object is confusing to me. It would seem that putting energy in to such fiction would be a waste of time. In short I would quickly say that any fantasy being could move any fantasy object without any problem while still creating something that is unmovable at the same time. This is fantasy after all.
Moving on though to the question at hand. The goal is to call into question the Omnipotence of God. In my estimation we cannot in our finite understanding be aware of what omnipotence is. If we could understand the most powerful force in the universe we would just be scratching the surface of understanding omnipotence. If it takes 70,000 computer processors to figure out the merging of two black holes, then understanding omnipotence is a bit more processing power than my tiny brain can handle. At best we can imagine that God is more powerful than the most powerful thing we can think of.
My concern though is for the second half of the question. First the size of the object. For an object to be so big it would have to be larger than the force trying to move it. Omnipotence by definition is infinitely powerful. So in this case our object would have to be infinitely large. Creating an infinitely large object would displace everything else in existence. It would be the utter obliteration of everything (Including God Himself?). This would make such an object a fantasy. It would be an unreal object. Can God create something that does not have the possibility of existing. No! Why? Because it is a contradiction. For an object to exist it must be finite and if it is finite then God can move it. Something finite cannot be infinite. So such an object cannot logically exist.
Next looking at the properties of Objects. I would say that moveability is a universal property of objects. Throughout the universe we see objects in motion. There is no corner in which we find something that is not moving in some way, shape, or form. I propose that it is not possible for an immoveable object to exist. Everything is in motion in some manner. Even Black holes (in my limited understanding) are in motion. So if the most massive objects that we are aware of are in motion then an object even more massive would have to be in motion as well. What is more motion is measured relative to another object. So in order to test whether it was not moved there would need to be two of these immoveable objects. I am having trouble imagining one now we need two. Hmm!
One more thing, the laws of astrophysics would indicate that as an object got larger it would reach such a size that the gravitational pull of that object would begin to pull itself into itself creating a black hole. As that object became more massive then it would reach the mass of the universe. What is larger than the mass of the universe? I am not sure, but if our universe is moving I am not sure what a black hole more massive than our universe would be? Singularity perhaps. Could God move it? Yes we exist don't we. So you see no matter the enormous mass of this supposed object it would have the quality of moveably. An immoveable object is a contradiction in and of itself. So it cannot exist.
In conclusion then the question is illogical. Illogical questions can be answered however you want, but you will never know nor can you arrive at the correct answer.
I have a question for the Atheist. Can any researcher create a computer simulation of an immoveable object? They might want to start here and get up to speed. This simulation took 70,000 processors three months to compute. I wonder how they connected all those laptops :-) . Here is what they produced.
Well at least we know the object is bigger than the little guy on the left and also bigger than the guy on the right Notice the little ripple at the end as it takes the little black hole into itself.
God Bless You
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