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Devil's Advocate
Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Does God exist?". Your opponent's style: Devil's Advocate
User
I will argue that there is evidence such as a formal argument that makes the God proposition more likely than the non God proposition
Devil's Advocate
You're assuming formal arguments can bridge the gap between abstraction and reality. They can't. A syllogism about God proves nothing about existence, only about logical consistency. The Cosmological Argument, for instance, merely shifts the problem: if God needs no cause, why does the universe? You've simply renamed the mystery rather than solved it. Every formal argument relies on premises you've smuggled in without justification. Which specific argument do you think avoids circular reasoning or unprovable assumptions about causality, necessity, or being itself?