(May 12, 2016 at 12:45 pm)SteveII Wrote:(May 12, 2016 at 8:54 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: 1. Everything that began to exist, existed previously in a different form
2. The universe began to exist
Therefore:
3. The universe existed in different forms before it began to exist in its current form
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1.If the universe existed in different forms before it began to exist in its current form, then a race of omnipotent, formless unchanging, green, manic-depressive extraterrestrials who exist sans the universe must necessarily be responsible for universe beginning to exist in its various forms.
Therefore:
A race of omnipotent, formless unchanging, green, manic-depressive extraterrestrials exist, who exist sans the universe and are responsible for the universe beginning to exist in its various forms.
(Please provide defeaters for my premises, otherwise you MUST accept my conclusion as true.)
Defeater for P1: infinite regression of past causes is logically absurd.
But, but! You can't prove that the actual universe isn't an infinite regress, so therefore my premise is true and you have to agree with me!
Sound familiar?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.