RE: Arguments for God's Existence from Contingency
November 29, 2017 at 5:50 am
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2017 at 6:00 am by GrandizerII.)
(November 28, 2017 at 3:07 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: If I was not a theist I would be a deist. To me, atheism makes the least logical sense out of all 3.
And I don't mean this as an insult to y'all (I'm sure y'all feel the same way about what I am).
I just mean it would take some serious, serious faith and dishonesty to myself to believe there exists NO force, not bound by the laws of nature, that could have created the first physical thing to ever have existed.
If the cosmos is eternal, then there need be no such force. Furthermore, depending on the properties you assign to the "force", the "force" may defy logic and so would be very unreasonable to believe in.
(November 28, 2017 at 3:52 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: And among the arguments, I came up with in the past and no one was able to refute:
1. If hypothetical Creator (for sake of argument, we are saying this being is neither good or evil) can create morality from nothing (without it already existing), it can make it what it wants.
2. If it can make what it wants, it can be arbitrary.
3. If it can be arbitrary, then it can make it that it's inherently good to torture innocent souls for eternity.
4. It is impossible that it being inherently good to torture an innocent soul for eternity.
5. Therefore it cannot be arbitrary.
6. Therefore it can't make what it wants.
7. Therefore it can't create morality from nothing.
8. If a Creator can't create morality from nothing, neither can evolution, since it can create evolution or everything created by evolution.
9. Therefore morality is eternal.
10. Morality requires perception.
And you add the premises that will lead to God.... they are not hard....
Terribly weak at logic. No improvement yet.
