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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Question of the Week #919: ChatGPT Strikes Out Big Time!

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

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🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

I need some answers for these fallacies that God is the first cause.

0:18.3

I just ran your argument through ChatGPT to check for the logical fallacies

0:22.4

you've committed and you've actually committed six of them. Here's the list. The argument that a

0:28.4

God is the first cause of the universe and that the universe cannot be eternal involves certain

0:34.5

logical fallacies. Special pleading.

0:38.7

This fallacy occurs if one assumes the universe requires a cause but claims that God does not.

0:45.1

If everything must have a cause, the same rule would logically apply to God.

0:50.5

Begging the question.

0:52.2

This fallacy arises if someone assumes the conclusion that a God exists

0:56.1

to prove that the universe was created by that God. The argument presumes what it seeks to prove,

1:02.8

i.e. the existence of a God as the first cause. Argument from ignorance. Argumentum, add

1:10.7

ignorantium. This occurs when a lack of scientific or

1:14.7

naturalistic explanations for the universe's origins is used to conclude that a god must be the cause.

1:21.7

Just because science doesn't have a complete answer does not mean a supernatural answer is valid by default.

1:29.0

Composition fallacy. This fallacy occurs if one assumes that because things within the

1:34.2

universe are caused, the universe as a whole must also have a cause. Properties of individual parts

1:41.0

do not always apply to the whole. God of the gaps. This fallacy involves invoking a

1:48.4

god to fill gaps in human understanding. It relies on attributing unknown or unexplained phenomena

1:54.9

to divine intervention, instead of accepting that they are unknown. Non sequitur.

2:02.6

If the argument jumps from the universe needs a cause to,

2:06.6

therefore a God is that cause, it's a non sequitur.

2:10.6

The conclusion, a God exists, does not necessarily follow from the premises about causality.

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