Who throws the dice for you?
April 16, 2014 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2014 at 2:24 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
The premise assumes God's existence based on something irrelevant. It's a god of the gaps argument, not unlike Russell's teapot. It's an unfalsifiable, unsupportable and untestable premise, presented as valid.
Begging the question is also known as petitio principii, or assuming the initial point.
It's no more a valid assumption than "If the sky is blue, God exists: the sky is blue, therefore God exists."
Begging the question is also known as petitio principii, or assuming the initial point.
It's no more a valid assumption than "If the sky is blue, God exists: the sky is blue, therefore God exists."
