RE: Disproving Odin - An Experiment in arguing with a theist with Theist logic
March 20, 2018 at 12:17 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2018 at 12:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-If- time had a beginning...and that beginning of time coincides with..say, the bb....then there was a never a prior time t that the universe did not exist. Ergo it did not begin to exist in the sense important or relevant to the thread (or argument). Ergo it does not have a cause, in the sense important to the thread or argument..... for the reasons stated in the thread......or argument.
-If- there was some prior time t.....and the universe existed in some form but not this form prior to that time t...then whatever caused the change in state between t- and t+ is a proximate..rather than ultimate, cause.
-If- there was some prior time t and nothing existed in any form prior to that time t.....then nothing..................
-If- there was some prior time t.....and the universe existed in some form but not this form prior to that time t...then whatever caused the change in state between t- and t+ is a proximate..rather than ultimate, cause.
-If- there was some prior time t and nothing existed in any form prior to that time t.....then nothing..................
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