RE: Attn: Theists - What would it take to prove you wrong?
August 26, 2013 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2013 at 3:27 pm by Fidel_Castronaut.)
(August 26, 2013 at 2:31 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote:(August 26, 2013 at 2:25 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Not proof.
Philosophical proof. All effects have a cause, no effect can be uncaused. The ultimate first cause of all the effects that exist everywhere in reality must not in itself be caused by anything itself. God is the uncaused cause which must therefore exist for anything else to exist.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading
Also, you've formed a contradiction in your reasoning. 'Everything is caused except this one thing that isn't'. That is fallicious reasoning, even in philosophical discourse.
No philosophical proof can be seen in your post. Maelstrom's point holds as valid as, even if a 'cause' were to be evidenced, it does thus not follow therefore that it is your assertion that is correct.