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Why there must be a God
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RE: Why there must be a God
Quote:ThinkingMan Wrote:
Nothing in existence creates itself or exists by its own accord.


Funny you should say that. According to Stephen Hawking's latest book,it actually does. The argument has been around for at least 30 years of which I'm aware. I first came across it in the early 1970's in a book called "Evidence And Inference".(philosophy,not physics)

IF you argue nothing comes into existence of its own accord,you may not then argue an uncreated God. That's a logical fallacy called 'special pleading'


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Quote:Special pleading is a form of spurious argumentation where a position in a dispute introduces favorable details or excludes unfavorable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations themselves. Essentially, this involves someone attempting to cite something as an exemption to a generally accepted rule, principle, etc. without justifying the exemption.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading



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Why there must be a God - by ThinkingMan - September 9, 2010 at 8:19 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ABierman1986 - September 9, 2010 at 8:27 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Paul the Human - September 9, 2010 at 8:29 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Watson - September 9, 2010 at 8:45 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by lrh9 - September 9, 2010 at 8:52 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by theVOID - September 9, 2010 at 9:02 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by LastPoet - September 9, 2010 at 9:02 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by padraic - September 9, 2010 at 9:37 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by HeyItsZeus - September 9, 2010 at 9:40 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by leo-rcc - September 10, 2010 at 5:25 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by DeistPaladin - September 10, 2010 at 10:19 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by Watson - September 9, 2010 at 9:39 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by padraic - September 9, 2010 at 11:43 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Entropist - September 9, 2010 at 11:50 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Entropist - September 9, 2010 at 10:06 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Minimalist - September 10, 2010 at 12:06 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by Zen Badger - September 10, 2010 at 5:43 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by Skipper - September 10, 2010 at 6:17 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by padraic - September 10, 2010 at 6:39 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by everythingafter - September 10, 2010 at 11:19 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by DeistPaladin - September 10, 2010 at 11:24 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by everythingafter - September 11, 2010 at 1:05 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by ThinkingMan - September 10, 2010 at 12:29 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ABierman1986 - September 10, 2010 at 12:30 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Minimalist - September 10, 2010 at 12:37 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ThinkingMan - September 10, 2010 at 12:45 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by The Omnissiunt One - September 10, 2010 at 2:02 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by lrh9 - September 10, 2010 at 2:08 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Welsh cake - September 10, 2010 at 1:16 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by TheDarkestOfAngels - September 10, 2010 at 1:26 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ThinkingMan - September 10, 2010 at 2:09 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by TheDarkestOfAngels - September 10, 2010 at 3:50 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ThinkingMan - September 10, 2010 at 5:40 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Skipper - September 10, 2010 at 5:48 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by The Omnissiunt One - September 10, 2010 at 5:55 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by TheDarkestOfAngels - September 11, 2010 at 12:44 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by Minimalist - September 10, 2010 at 1:32 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by lrh9 - September 10, 2010 at 2:20 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by LastPoet - September 10, 2010 at 2:35 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Nitsuj - September 10, 2010 at 2:42 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by downbeatplumb - September 10, 2010 at 2:44 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ThinkingMan - September 10, 2010 at 2:53 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by downbeatplumb - September 10, 2010 at 3:10 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by LastPoet - September 10, 2010 at 3:17 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Captain Scarlet - September 10, 2010 at 5:37 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by lrh9 - September 10, 2010 at 2:55 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by LastPoet - September 10, 2010 at 2:59 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by lrh9 - September 10, 2010 at 3:26 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by LastPoet - September 10, 2010 at 3:34 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by lrh9 - September 10, 2010 at 3:37 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by SleepingDemon - September 10, 2010 at 3:39 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by padraic - September 11, 2010 at 4:26 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by Soyouz - September 11, 2010 at 5:24 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Shell B - September 11, 2010 at 6:13 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ThinkingMan - September 12, 2010 at 12:02 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by TheDarkestOfAngels - September 12, 2010 at 2:30 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by LastPoet - September 12, 2010 at 12:19 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ThinkingMan - September 12, 2010 at 12:49 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Skipper - September 12, 2010 at 12:54 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ThinkingMan - September 12, 2010 at 1:17 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Captain Scarlet - September 12, 2010 at 12:57 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ThinkingMan - September 12, 2010 at 1:05 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ThinkingMan - September 12, 2010 at 1:32 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Captain Scarlet - September 12, 2010 at 2:24 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Skipper - September 12, 2010 at 2:14 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Minimalist - September 12, 2010 at 1:07 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by LastPoet - September 12, 2010 at 1:19 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ThinkingMan - September 12, 2010 at 3:58 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Captain Scarlet - September 12, 2010 at 4:45 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Minimalist - September 12, 2010 at 4:35 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by ABierman1986 - September 12, 2010 at 7:37 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Minimalist - September 12, 2010 at 7:46 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by DiRNiS - September 12, 2010 at 10:16 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by TheDarkestOfAngels - September 13, 2010 at 3:40 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by theVOID - September 12, 2010 at 10:30 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by DeistPaladin - September 13, 2010 at 2:57 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by krazedkat - September 13, 2010 at 8:13 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Welsh cake - September 15, 2010 at 6:41 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by Minimalist - September 21, 2010 at 6:33 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by socratation - September 21, 2010 at 9:17 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by tavarish - September 27, 2010 at 9:32 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Edwardo Piet - September 28, 2010 at 5:01 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by Skipper - September 28, 2010 at 6:14 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by theVOID - September 28, 2010 at 6:48 am
RE: Why there must be a God - by downbeatplumb - September 28, 2010 at 1:16 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by LastPoet - September 28, 2010 at 1:43 pm
RE: Why there must be a God - by Znedrow4 - September 28, 2010 at 11:19 pm

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