• EfreetSK@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    This as many other theist arguments fails by basically starting with assumption “Let there be God. Then …”. You can put it in front of it and it becomes obvious what’s the problem.

    The same way I could say “Let there be unicorns. Then a person denying their existence is just delusional”

    • stinerman [Ohio]
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      9 months ago

      Yes it’s a riff on Descartes’ “proof” that the chair in front of him existed by first having to prove that God exists.

      God is a perfect being. Beings have to exist to be perfect, therefore God exists. This is classic question begging. Using this logic you can define things into existence. There exists a perfect Lemmy client without any bugs. The client must exist to be perfect, therefore the client exists.