God proving his existence

aaron rainwater aaron@rainwater.net
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 23:24:42 -0600 (00919164282, 4.2.0.24.19990215232135.00bad8e0@mr.mailbank.com)



>TOM:
>Each syllogism would be different for each argument.
>How about the following two (based on a previous post):
>
>1. Nothing comes from nothing.
>2. The universe is something.
>3. All things that begin to exist come from something.
>4. The universe began to exist.
>
>Therefore: Something brought the unverse into existence. By nature
>that something must be timeless (to bring time into existence), all
>powerful (to be able to do so), changeless (to invoke physical law),
>intelligent (to fine tune the aspects of the big bang, etc...
>
>
>1. Irreducibly complex things require a designer.
>2. The cell is irreducibly complex.
>
>Therefore; The cell was designed.

|rainwater|
Sorry to add more to this thread, especially since I may be stepping on a philosophical land mine with the following comment. Wouldn't God be irreducibly complex? I don't know how much more bluntly I could ask that. It just kind of jumped out at me. Go figure... -- aaron rainwater "And isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick! Rational thinking. But when you're good and crazy, oooh!! The sky's the limit!" -- The Tick