(May 13, 2016 at 12:11 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: What gets me is the idea that a timeless, immaterial, omnipotent, spaceless being is somehow a less ludicrous supposition than an infinite past or something coming from nothing. You don't solve an absurdity by proposing an even greater absurdity. The chosen solution, this 'God', is more extreme than the alternatives.
That is a good point. However, no one is using the KCA alone to prove God's existence. There are additional reasons to think that God exists.
Natural Theology:
- Cosmological Argument from Contingency
- Basis for Moral Absolutes
- Teleological Argument from Fine Tuning
- The Ontological Argument
Revealed Theology:
- The OT
- The NT
- Miracles
Individual's personal experience
While you may debate as to how much evidence each gives, they mostly stand or fall together so if someone wants to say there is no proof for God, you would have to dismantle all of them to support that statement. I am sure there are some people here who think they can do that, but what it really comes down to is that it takes an extremely high level of skepticism to deny all of them. At that level of skepticism, you have to start asking if it possible to believe in anything.
OR, is it more often the case that non-belief is a result of an emotional response...perhaps because suffering exists or some related objection?