: I can't argue with the essence of what you say, which is that the existence of "God" is impossible to prove. I agree with that. And because I'm only a flesh & blood creature with limited senses, I must use logic to deduce that which I cannot prove through observation. So, logically, I ascribe the Beginning of Everything to a "God." I have no other answer right now, nor am I convinced of a better answer, but I am eager to here one.Why must you?; it's something logic cannot address and never will be able to. You can't use logic to prove that it will rain tomorrow; you can only express a statistical likelihood.
Logic cannot be used to prove the unproveable; you have to put an assumption in to begin with; and that ruins any constructive conclusion.
Basically put, you cannot use logic to deduce that which you can never prove. It is simply not logical to assign the Beginning of Everything to a cause; as you have to use a logical process to do it - causality; but since any God in the accepted sense of the word is beyond logic, you cannot use logic to deduce God's existence.
It is a belief; not a logical assumption, that is behind the idea of a First Cause. Any God that could be defined by logical deduction would be nothing more potent and all-encompassing than a particularly powerful computer program.
Gideon.
