(August 18, 2011 at 2:40 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You know I may actually make a post in Ry'leh compiling every time you get stuffed and try to let the thread die, just so I can refer people to it every time you trot out a similar or identical argument. No special pleading on my part, the god proposition and the alien proposition are identical to me. Dismissing one dismisses the other on identical grounds. Hefty claim btw, valid arguments for god, care to post it? You might win a Nobel prize. Also, you could post it as an algebraic equation..lol.
Ugh, I hate having to teach you logic for free. You are confusing valid argument with sound argument, the cosmological, moral, transcendental, and ontological arguments for God are all valid arguments (the conclusion logically follows from the premises), the debate has always been whether they are sound or not (the premises are true).
P1. All dogs fly
P2. Daisy is a Dog
C. Therefore, Daisy flies
Is a valid argument, it is not a sound one though.
It’s easy to think of valid arguments for God’s existence, here is one…
P1. Scripture is inerrant
P2. Scripture says God exists
C. Therefore, God exists.
That’s also a valid argument. Anything else you want to know about the basics of logic?
