Debate between a user and Sherlock Holmes on DebateAI.org
Sherlock Holmes
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User
all logical arguments for the existence of a god have significant logical gaps and are ultimately unconvincing.
Sherlock Holmes
You're wrong on the burden of proof. The cosmological argument doesn't require God to be *proven* logically airtight—it asks what's more rational: infinite regress of causes, or a first cause? That's not a gap, that's parsimony.
Same with fine-tuning. You can't just dismiss it as "anthropic principle." The constants are absurdly precise. Saying "we're here observing it so it had to be this way" doesn't explain *why* those odds collapsed in our favor.
Your demand for zero logical gaps sets an impossible standard you don't apply to materialism. What's *your* gap-free explanation for consciousness? For why anything exists at all?
How do you explain those without hand-waving?