(April 19, 2014 at 4:13 pm)Heywood Wrote: Premise 4 is a conditional...there is no question begging. It does not conclude that a supernatural element does indeed exist. A condition has to be met to make that conclusion.
Premise 5 follows from premise 1 and 2. If you accept 1 and 2, you just have to accept 5...I see no way around it.
I would say the likelihood of our reality being dependent on a supernatural element is a little less than 50%.
The conclusion of God invokes the supernatural and in your argument God is only true if the supernatural is assumed. This is begging the question.
I don't have to accept 5. The alternative that I proposed is that there is a scientific explanation that we have yet to discover. As an illustration: God did not make the solar system work until Newton had an opportunity to ponder skydiving fruit.