(October 24, 2016 at 10:13 am)Mathilda Wrote: Every argument for the existence of God can be very subtly altered to provide an even stronger argument against the existence of God I find.
For example, altering the OP's argument as little as possible we get:
Quote:1. Formulate the information of the concept of God, thus:
"God in concept is first and foremost the creator and operator of the universe and man and everything with a beginning."
2. Look for instances of causation in reality outside of concepts in our mind.
3. We find countless examples of causation in reality outside of concepts in our mind.
4. From the countless instances of causation in reality we find that they are all cases of rearrangement of existing matter via the flow of energy, we infer that there cannot exist a first and ultimate cause.
5. Conclusion: God does not exist except solely as an imagined concept.
See. Far better. You can back it up with evidence too, reproducible, and it's also falsifiable therefore within the scope of science. All you need to do is find an instance of causation that does not involve the rearrangement of existing matter via an energy flow.
Good luck with that though.
