(July 11, 2012 at 7:40 pm)padraic Wrote: IF the premise is true (which is actually arguable) the conclusion does not infer God. We are left with "what caused God?". The claim "God is the exception" is a logical fallacy called 'special pleading' which abrogates the premise.
(a) Has a beginning.
(b) has a cause.
a -> b is equivalent to not b -> not a.
Doesn't have a cause, implies it doesn't have a beginning.
Well something is without cause, it can't be the universe since that has a beginning.