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To: Lucky Dog
One of the first axioms of logic is that “nothing comes from nothing,” or stated otherwise, there is a cause for all observed phenomena. Therefore, logically, since there is an observation of “existence,” it has a cause.

That is a false statement

12 posted on 08/19/2008 5:13:45 AM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Soliton
That is a false statement

If you wish to play the game of gratuitous assertions, I will oblige.

Your statement is false.
14 posted on 08/19/2008 5:24:12 AM PDT by Lucky Dog
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To: Soliton

Hi Soliton,

Could you please help me understand why you have written that this is a false statement?

1) “One of the first axioms of logic is that ‘nothing comes from nothing’...”

Are you saying that this is not one of the first axioms of logic?

2) “or stated otherwise, there is a cause for all observed phenomena.”

If 1 is true, are you saying that this is an incorrect paraphrase of 1?

3) “Therefore, logically, since there is an observation of ‘existence,’ it has a cause.”

Are you saying that this conclusion does not follow from 1 as paraphrased in 2?


15 posted on 08/19/2008 5:30:13 AM PDT by Brouhaha
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