Most/Least Powerful Arguments for God

[Audie]

Energy cannot be eternal - it MUST have a source! Of course, one can speculate with all manner of theoreticals. And the energy that originally propelled the elements within the Big Bang had to be applied to such elements with great specificity. And the energy we observe is being used up. Stars burn out, etc.

As in my original objection to ca; assumed premises. Seems to me you are just saying things, assertions you've no way to demonstrate.

[Kenny]

Possibly, but what do YOU think my idea of God is?

The God of Christianity.

Ken

And who and what is that?
I am honestly asking Ken, who and what do you think MY idea of God is?

Creator of the Universe; all that exists, the person who will judge who goes to Heaven, & Hell after death, the God of the bible. If this doesn't answer your question, perhaps you can describe the type of answer you are looking for

Ken

That isn't really what we are talking about on THIS thread though.

You commented that I myself was making a leap by suggesting that everything came into being except my idea of God and that is a fair statement to make.
Except that, I didn't suggest that.

Perhaps I should have said “that’s what you believe”…. you do believe that right?

I suggest that everything that comes into being (not everything) has a cause, everything that is moved, has a mover and that, since we can't have infinite regression, we MUST logically and reasonably arrive at something that is UNCAUSED and UNMOVING or at LEAST, the FIRST Cause and FIRST mover.

Something, or some things. If one thing can be uncaused, and unmoved, multiple things could be uncaused and unmoved as well.

And that something must be God because of who God is defined and because of how He MUST be if He IS God.
You understand this part, yes?

I understand this part, I just don’t agree with it. I don’t agree this “unmoved mover” MUST be conscious, and intelligent. How come this unmoved mover can't be energy and matter?

Ken

[PaulSacramento]

Energy cannot be eternal - it MUST have a source! Of course, one can speculate with all manner of theoreticals. And the energy that originally propelled the elements within the Big Bang had to be applied to such elements with great specificity. And the energy we observe is being used up. Stars burn out, etc.

Point is Philip, even if energy was eternal, it wouldn't make a difference to the argument.

[Kenny]

Energy cannot be eternal - it MUST have a source! Of course, one can speculate with all manner of theoreticals. And the energy that originally propelled the elements within the Big Bang had to be applied to such elements with great specificity. And the energy we observe is being used up. Stars burn out, etc.

Point is Philip, even if energy was eternal, it wouldn't make a difference to the argument.

Energy is not intelligent, all good, all knowing, and everything else that is attributed to God

Ken

[Byblos]

Energy cannot be eternal -

Prove it.

[Byblos]

Energy cannot be eternal - it MUST have a source! Of course, one can speculate with all manner of theoreticals. And the energy that originally propelled the elements within the Big Bang had to be applied to such elements with great specificity. And the energy we observe is being used up. Stars burn out, etc.

As in my original objection to ca; assumed premises. Seems to me you are just saying things, assertions you've no way to demonstrate.

If you think CA has anything to do with time then the assumed premises are from your side, not CA's.

CA has to do with essentially ordered causal series (simultaneous in the here-and-now). It has nothing to do with accidentally ordered causal series (hierarchical, sequential, time-dependent, etc.)

[PaulSacramento]

Energy cannot be eternal - it MUST have a source! Of course, one can speculate with all manner of theoreticals. And the energy that originally propelled the elements within the Big Bang had to be applied to such elements with great specificity. And the energy we observe is being used up. Stars burn out, etc.

Point is Philip, even if energy was eternal, it wouldn't make a difference to the argument.

Energy is not intelligent, all good, all knowing, and everything else that is attributed to God

Ken

No one is saying that ken.
Even if energy was eternal, it won't matter to the cosmological argument.

[PaulSacramento]

Energy cannot be eternal - it MUST have a source! Of course, one can speculate with all manner of theoreticals. And the energy that originally propelled the elements within the Big Bang had to be applied to such elements with great specificity. And the energy we observe is being used up. Stars burn out, etc.

As in my original objection to ca; assumed premises. Seems to me you are just saying things, assertions you've no way to demonstrate.

If you think CA has anything to do with time then the assumed premises are from your side, not CA's.

CA has to do with essentially ordered causal series (simultaneous in the here-and-now). It has nothing to do with accidentally ordered causal series (hierarchical, sequential, time-dependent, etc.)

Correct.
It goes back to the people trying to refute the argument, not understanding the argument.

[Kenny]

Energy cannot be eternal - it MUST have a source! Of course, one can speculate with all manner of theoreticals. And the energy that originally propelled the elements within the Big Bang had to be applied to such elements with great specificity. And the energy we observe is being used up. Stars burn out, etc.

Point is Philip, even if energy was eternal, it wouldn't make a difference to the argument.

Energy is not intelligent, all good, all knowing, and everything else that is attributed to God

Ken

No one is saying that ken.
Even if energy was eternal, it won't matter to the cosmological argument.

So are you saying the Cosmological argument was never intended to be used to prove God?

Ken

[PaulSacramento]

Energy cannot be eternal - it MUST have a source! Of course, one can speculate with all manner of theoreticals. And the energy that originally propelled the elements within the Big Bang had to be applied to such elements with great specificity. And the energy we observe is being used up. Stars burn out, etc.

Point is Philip, even if energy was eternal, it wouldn't make a difference to the argument.

Energy is not intelligent, all good, all knowing, and everything else that is attributed to God

Ken

No one is saying that ken.
Even if energy was eternal, it won't matter to the cosmological argument.

So are you saying the Cosmological argument was never intended to be used to prove God?

Ken

Are you equating energy with God ??

[Kenny]

Point is Philip, even if energy was eternal, it wouldn't make a difference to the argument.

Energy is not intelligent, all good, all knowing, and everything else that is attributed to God

Ken

No one is saying that ken.
Even if energy was eternal, it won't matter to the cosmological argument.

So are you saying the Cosmological argument was never intended to be used to prove God?

Ken

Are you equating energy with God ??

No; I'm saying energy is NOT God.

K

[B. W.]

Prease explain

Audie, Jac provided the explanation....

I'd ask you not to make such assumptions about me. You should know all about that. You said you didn't accept the premises. My assumption was that there are some that you accept (e.g., that some things are in motion) and some that you don't. I don't know what those assumptions you don't accept are, so I asked.

I had no interest in pressing the matter with you. I might have wanted to know why you rejected or didn't assume any particular premise, but the idea of debating the CA with you is about as interesting to me as giving a crocodile a root canal. But as someone who is interested in the CA and how it is perceived by those who haven't studied it, I was (again, emphasizing was) interested in your perception of it.

It's the same reason I read news from liberal media outlets that I tend to disagree with. I want to know their perspective. I was curious in yours. And you couldn't even provide that. Instead, you ask if I'm going to ask you to justify it and play in "my" court.

Get over yourself. For someone who doesn't take too kindly to bullying, you do a lot of it yourself. And it's frankly depressing, because you show the sparks of intellectual honesty, and I feel like I could actually learn something from discussing these things with you. And then you go pull stunts like this. It's disheartening and shameful. I may as well waste my time arguing with ACB.

You'd have to show this poor esl student wherein my response matches anything in the dictionary about "evasion".

Here you go...

Evasion
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noun
1.
an act or instance of escaping, avoiding, or shirking something:

2.
the avoiding of an argument, accusation, question, or the like, as by a subterfuge:
The old political boss was notorious for his practice of evasion.

3.
a means of evading; subterfuge; an excuse or trick to avoid or get around something:
Her polite agreement was an evasion concealing what she really felt.

4.
physical or mental escape.

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I asked for a match

There ya go...

[PaulSacramento]

Ken, what is your point??
No one here is saying that energy is God, the Cosmological argument doesn't say that either.

[Kenny]

Ken, what is your point??
No one here is saying that energy is God, the Cosmological argument doesn't say that either.

Earlier you said "that something that is eternal must be God because of the way God is defined".
I'm just suggesting that matter and energy could be eternal because of the way they are defined.

Ken

[Audie]

Audie, Jac provided the explanation....

You'd have to show this poor esl student wherein my response matches anything in the dictionary about "evasion".

Here you go...

Evasion
As quted and defined from Dictionary.com
Synonyms Examples Word Origin
See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
noun
1.
an act or instance of escaping, avoiding, or shirking something:

2.
the avoiding of an argument, accusation, question, or the like, as by a subterfuge:
The old political boss was notorious for his practice of evasion.

3.
a means of evading; subterfuge; an excuse or trick to avoid or get around something:
Her polite agreement was an evasion concealing what she really felt.

4.
physical or mental escape.

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I asked for a match

There ya go...

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