RE: Arguments for God's Existence from Contingency
November 28, 2017 at 11:02 am
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2017 at 11:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It won't -matter- if you have "support for premise 2"..which, frankly, you do not. Assuming for the sake of conversation that you did, and that this proposition wasn;t fundamentally useless in a conditional statement in it's own right...you would -still- need to find a different way to formulate the argument..as it would still assume it's own conclusion, asserting what it intends to demonstrate.
Nothing short of an explanation for the universe explictly referencing god -could- suffice as "support for premise 2" - and forgive me for suggesting that you're simply not up to the task. All your work would still be ahead of you if you could jump that monumental hurdle..because you would then need to demonstrate that your explanation for the universe was true........and if, in this alternate reality, you managed that in the manner that you must simply to justify the premise, then the conclusion of 5 would be redundant.
Quote:2. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God.
4. The universe has an explanation of its existence.
5. Therefore, the explanation of the universe’s existence is God. (from 2 and 4)
Nothing short of an explanation for the universe explictly referencing god -could- suffice as "support for premise 2" - and forgive me for suggesting that you're simply not up to the task. All your work would still be ahead of you if you could jump that monumental hurdle..because you would then need to demonstrate that your explanation for the universe was true........and if, in this alternate reality, you managed that in the manner that you must simply to justify the premise, then the conclusion of 5 would be redundant.
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