{"id":809,"date":"2008-08-03T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/08\/03\/sye-lets-go-round-again\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T21:10:00","slug":"sye-lets-go-round-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/08\/03\/sye-lets-go-round-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sye &#8211; let&#8217;s go round again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Sye<\/p>\n<p>So we are back here again. OK, let&#8217;s go round again. Only this time even more slowly and carefully.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proofthatgodexists.org\/\">your website<\/a>, you present this argument:<\/p>\n<p>(1) The existence of laws of logic nec. requires the existence of the Christian God<br \/>(2) The laws of logic exist<br \/>Therefore: the Christian God exists.<\/p>\n<p>You call this a &#8220;proof&#8221;. You have also said the argument on your website establishes, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">as it stands<\/span>, the truth of the above conclusion beyond reasonable doubt, right?<\/p>\n<p>Now we ask why we should accept premise (1). You say there is also an argument for (1) on your website. We look. We can&#8217;t find it. You say it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proofthatgodexists.org\/proof.php\">behind the &#8220;continue&#8221; button<\/a>. We still cannot find it &#8211; all we can find is the *<span style=\"font-style: italic\">assertion<\/span>* that the contrary of (1) is impossible, but no *<span style=\"font-style: italic\">argument<\/span>* that the contrary of (1) is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>So, some questions:<\/p>\n<p>(i) It is an argument, in the sense of premises and conclusion, that you supply to support (1), correct?<br \/>(ii) This argument does lie on the page behind the &#8220;continue&#8221; button, correct?<br \/>(iii) This argument does establish the truth of premise (1) beyond reasonable doubt, correct?<br \/>(iv) In which case, can you help us by setting out the argument in question with numbered premises and conclusion? Like so:<\/p>\n<p>premise 1<br \/>premise 2<br \/>premise 3<br \/>[&#8230;)<br \/>premise n<br \/>Therefore: Conclusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Sye So we are back here again. OK, let&#8217;s go round again. Only this time even more slowly and carefully. On your website, you present this argument: (1) The existence of laws of logic nec. requires the existence of the Christian God(2) The laws of logic existTherefore: the Christian God exists. You call this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sinner-ministries-proof-of-the-existence-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}