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Author Topic:   No Abiogenesis, no Evolution, then what?
mick
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Message 170 of 173 (367377)
12-01-2006 8:43 PM
Reply to: Message 168 by NOT JULIUS
12-01-2006 3:47 PM


Re: a closer look at the argument
Hi pilate_judas,
I realize I'm butting into a debate here, but I find your "logic" a bit, well, illogical.
Particularly your premise 3:
pilate_judas writes:
Every rule there is an exception.
Where did this come from? It certainly doesn't follow from premises 1 and 2. I know it is a folk saying, but that doesn't really count much in its favour.
In logical terms, you are saying:
"For every thing that invariably obeys a rule, there is a thing that does not follow the rule"
Well, okay, I might challenge your view of what a rule is! If a rule is necessarily disobeyed, then it is not a rule, in my understanding of the term. A rule must be obeyed, otherwise it is not a rule. It is merely a convention.
Hence:
pilate_judas writes:
all these makers can be eliminated ... until we reach the Ultimate maker.
This requires that your rule ("all made things have a maker") necesssarily is NOT a rule ("there exists a made thing which has no maker").
I can't for the life of me imagine why you would dig yourself into such a hole. You seem to be saying that every truthful thing you say (which follows the rule of being true or being false) is ultimately and necessarily a lie. Because if it were not a lie... it wouldn't be true!
Back to logic class with you!
Mick
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Edited by mick, : I corrected a misuse of the subjunctive.

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