(April 14, 2014 at 11:01 am)Ben Davis Wrote:(April 14, 2014 at 9:34 am)Heywood Wrote: If God exists you would expect events to happen which do not have local physical causes.Fallacy: begging the question.
Define 'God'. What are its attributes? How is it complicit in the creation of non-local, physical events? What is the methodology? Is there a model from which we can derive tests?
These are the types of questions that you must be able to answer before you can use 'God' as a starting assumption. Until then you may not include God in a hypothesis.
Your statement is really nothing more than poor, vague speculation.
Negative Ben,
A begging the question fallacy requires the assumption of a conclusion. I reach 4 conclusions(which I weight differently for reasons I have yet to explain) none of which is an assumption I make.