Special pleading is only a fallacy when the distinction is made without a good reason, which is what we offer, namely that God exists necessarily, and the universe can not, because it had a beginning.They require the assumption.
Or they require that the universe need an external cause.
Always special pleading is required.
God is argued as a special case in any rule one would like to apply to the universe in order to assert God.
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