(May 31, 2020 at 2:50 am)brokenreflector Wrote: No. And what you've done here is strawman my argument. That's not good practice by the way. It's better to steelman somebody's argument before responding to it. That's much more effective and persuasive.
What I've actually done is list all of the possible causes of this urge: nature, societal pressures, upbringing, etc.; and if the origin of this urge isn't any of these things, particularly not from nature, then the origin is by definition transcendental or metaphysical.
Stop mislabeling things as logical fallacies.
I was not strawmanning, because I was extrapolating from what you were saying, not telling you what you were saying. Obviously you think you've exhausted all of your options other than God, but my position is that you have not exhausted the naturalistic explanations. The human brain is extremely complicated, so to pinpoint where your urge came from is next to impossible with our current understanding of brains.
To turn you currently weak argument into a strong one, you'd have to first exhaustively list every single possible naturalistic force that would lead to you stopping your behavior. No "etc." would be allowed. You have to demonstrate that every single force of nature (of which all have not even been discovered) to even think of bringing in a supernatural force as an explanation. Once every item on your list is proven to be an inadequate explanation for your behavior, you'd then have to prove that every combination of them wouldn't lead to such a behavior. Once you're done with this, then a supernatural explanation is warranted. You'd then need to demonstrate that such a supernatural force exists. And there you go, you'll have a pretty good piece of evidence for a god. That is an extraordinary amount of work, but necessary in order to create an actual piece of evidence for such an extraordinary claim.
With that being said, you could just use Occam's razor. Is it more likely that something (or somethings) is hiding within that "etc." that caused you to stop and you haven't figured out what it is yet, or that a supernatural being nudged you in that direction?
