(April 2, 2016 at 8:43 am)athrock Wrote:(April 2, 2016 at 8:02 am)Mr.wizard Wrote: Because you haven't established that god even exists, let alone be able to tell us what rules he's made or has to follow. Your comparing things we know exist with something we have no knowledge of, your just making up god to fit your analogies.
That wasn't really the point anyway, the point was special pleading.
Agreed. This discussion assumes that point for the sake of argument.
However, if God does exist, then I think it is reasonable to say that justification for the exemption exists; consequently, there is no special pleading.
If God does not exist, then we should have a very different discussion!
Well until you have proven God and his attributes, special pleading still applies. Because until you have proof, you are asserting that there is something that doesn't have to play by the same rules as everything else.
