(August 2, 2024 at 7:28 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: And what of it. Whether wielded by Christians or Muslims it still has special pleading and non sequitur baked into it. Even a Phi101 student can see the rubbish.
Neither Craig, nor Augustine, nor Anselm, nor the Muslims can connect those two dots. That's not because one religion is right and the other wrong, that's because the argument is based on specious premises.
Well, they're all based on Aristotle's arguments as to why a chain of causation has to end somewhere.
And remember that Aristotle believed the universe was eternal, with no beginning. The cause we're talking about here is not the beginning of a temporal chain.
Can you point out the flaws in Aristotle's argument to me?