(April 29, 2013 at 8:30 pm)Tex Wrote: I formed the argument on the basis that "stuff exists". Is this being contested?
You know very well that it's not, since I already agreed that "stuff exists". What you can't do is extrapolate from that, by itself, to "God exists", given that you are defining "God" to be the creator of all this "stuff" - anymore than we can extrapolate from a broken watch to watch-breaking gremlins without something to bridge the gap.
Basically, you need to go from A to B to C; at the moment you're going A to [insert magic here] to Great Pumpkin.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'