(June 29, 2015 at 6:10 pm)Louis Chérubin Wrote: In regards to the origin of the universe though, I don't want to be caught in the quagmire of this reasoning: "The natural world is all that exists, so the natural world must have been formed through natural causes." My rationality cannot accept this as valid. Instead I think: "The natural world exists. What is the most probable cause?"
Positing god as the creator of the universe with absolutely no evidence for this thing's existence renders a probability of zero. Simply an argument from ignorance.