(November 20, 2019 at 5:52 pm)LastPoet Wrote:(November 20, 2019 at 5:20 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Otangelo, two questions.
1. You claim that everything that exists must have a beginning. Is that correct?
2. You claim that god exists. Is that correct?
I'll save his trouble, god is special, it always existed
Meh heard this canard so many times....
Yep, special pleading fallacy. It is a rather tired old argument. Premise 1 of the Kalam used to be that everything that exists has a cause. When it was pointed out that this therefore implies that if a god exists, then he/she/it/housecat must also have a cause, no? And thus was born the modified Kalam argument. Let the special pleading commence. What annoys is that no justification is proffered, merely excuses.