(July 20, 2013 at 5:17 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(July 20, 2013 at 4:49 am)genkaus Wrote: That's a claim - not proof.
It's as much proof as there has ever been. If there is a God, then you and everything you experience are proof of his activity. It's not proof because we have an arbitrary selector: "if".
I don't 'claim' that God exists. I believe that God exists.
It's not proof because affirming the consequent is a logical fallacy.
If God, reality.
Reality, therefore God.
This suffers from the exact same problem as:
If I'm Bill Gates, I'm rich.
I'm rich, therefore I'm Bill Gates.
If P, then Q
Q, therefore P
Any time an argument takes this form, the conclusion does not follow from the premise. It's not a valid syllogism. However, this is:
If P, then Q
P, therefore Q