Is logical support of theism possible?

Hi MTW:Although both MikeHager and PaulK have touched on the major problem with your syllogism, neither have developed or expanded the disagreement very far. Before doing so, I would like a "read" from the others participating in the thread as to whether such rebuttal is appropriate and on topic. If you are simply seeking to develop a logical syllogism - where your conclusion flows from the premises - then I think you have succeeded. OTOH, if you are attempting to actually put forward a specific, logically sound and valid argument for the existence of God in this thread, then your premises need to be re-examined. Let me know if such a rebuttal is appropriate for this thread, or if we need to open a new one.

Hi PaulK,Yeah, it was definitely P1 that I was focusing on, (and that you mentioned previously). However, although P2 seems straightfoward, it is either trivially correct or vacuously wrong depending on how you parse it. From MikeHager's posts, however, I wasn't sure that that was what we were doing in this thread.

Hi MTW,Sorry you're not feeling well. And thanks for the invite to the discussion (I feel mainly ignored since I got back ). I'll have a chance tomorrow to put forward my reasons for considering P1 to be untenable and P2 to be weak - assuming no one else does so in the interim. PaulK's way quicker on the uptake than I am...