Disproving Odin - An Experiment in arguing with a theist with Theist logic

[Mister Agenda]

[quote=SteveII]
Actually, I did not assert anything at all. My number 3 is pretty tight reasoning. The rest is definitions. 

Regarding the question about how God did it, that is a nonsense question. How could we understand the process of creating a universe from nothing, by a being we can only just begin to fathom, from a point of view within the universe we barely understand? It is an unknowable question and asking it makes no point whatsoever in a discussion.  

By the way, your syllogism is lacking because you have failed to rule out all immaterial objects. You assumed, for your argument, that only one such possibility did not exist. Your number 6 does not follow from the premises--it is an assertion. There may be other reasons or I could argue that you would never know of a immaterial cause because by definition, immaterial is undetectable. In other words, for you to make a successful argument, you would have to prove that there was no such thing as the immaterial. Something you can't do.

Tautology IS about as tight as reasoning gets, I reckon.

I didn't intend my argument to be taken so seriously, I didn't put much thought into it, you have cogently pointed out its flaws, though. Good work.