Late to the party but still,
Agent Steel wrote:Premise 1: The Universe is all that exists
Premise 2: If the Universe is all that exists, nothing can exist apart from the Universe
Premise 3: If nothing can exist apart from the Universe, God can not exist apart from the Universe
Premise 4: If God can not exist apart from the Universe, then God must either exist within the Universe or not at all
Premise 5: God does not exist within the Universe
Conclusion: Therefore, God does not exist.
You are begging the question having gone no length in demonstrating the point that the universe is all that exists - which is central to the claim that god does not exist.
If the response, in turn, is to ask me to demonstrate that something outside the universe exists, I need not respond since it is not the contention of mine that something does - but, rather, that you can't demonstrate it doesn't and, for that reason, your argument fails. Being the individual who is making the claim, the burden of proof rests on you. In fact, if such an argument were to be put forth, it would be an argument from ignorance, which is fallacious reasoning.
Agent Steel wrote:Just as proposition (1), (5) is true by way of definition.
Your claim that nothing exists outside the universe is not true by way of definition. It is unknowable.
B0ycey wrote:Whatever you believe created the universe today relies on faith... and that includes science.
Science, mind you, has been quite clear about not making claims about what created the universe.
Because, as a poster said on page 4-ish, science is a collections of observations about the empirically-knowable universe.
XogGyux wrote:You can use it as evidence that some people BELIEVE there is more than the physical universe, but that is on itself not evidence that something other than a physical universe actually exists.
Using the same line of reasoning, your belief that only the physical universe exists is not evidence that only the physical universe exists.
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N.B. Didn't read the whole thread.
That the King is insane is now old news.