What caused the Universe?

[TagliatelliMonster]

do you have a reasonable explanation for it?

Lacking reasonable explanations for anything, in no way makes other explanations "more reasonable".

Claimed explanations fall and stand on their own merrit. Your claimed explanation doesn't become more credibly simply because I don't claim to have an explanation.

 

[victorinus]

And this only burries the "argument" even deeper into the fallacy of arguing from ignorance.

I am simply pointing out that I have a reasonable explanation
-and-
you don't

 

[victorinus]

Then use it.

I do

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

I am simply pointing out that I have a reasonable explanation
-and-
you don't

No, you are claiming to have one.

But it appears that your claim is no more or less then a fallacious argument from ignorance.

What you have, is a belief. Not knowledge. Not an actual explanation.

 

[victorinus]

Lacking reasonable explanations for anything, in no way makes other explanations "more reasonable".

there is no such thing as a more reasonable explanation for something
-if-
there is only one reasonable explanation for that something

 

[quatona]

I do

Cool. So I am patiently waiting for you to demonstrate the explanatory power of your assertion.
And I am patiently waiting for you to reveal your standards of "reasonable" - because they appear to be much lower than mine.

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

there is no such thing as a more reasonable explanation for something
-if-
there is only one reasonable explanation for that something

Explanation are not reasonable simply because they are claimed to be.

You need to actually demonstrate how they are reasonable.
You need to actually demonstrate the explanatory power.

You did neither.
All you did was pile up on claims, and backed them up with nothing but a fallacious argument from ignorance. And you didn't even bother to disguise the fallacy. We could use your posts in a book called "fallacies for dummies".

 

[victorinus]

What you have, is a belief.

agreed
-but-
it is also a reasonable explanation
-and-
you don't have one

 

[victorinus]

Cool. So I am patiently waiting for you to demonstrate the explanatory power of your assertion.

I have not asserted anything -
I simply stated what I think is a reasonable explanation for why we are here -
it is a working hypothesis

 

[quatona]

I have not asserted anything -

Sure you have.

I simply stated what I think is a reasonable explanation for why we are here

Good, so now we know that you think your assertion is a reasonable explanation.

it is a working hypothesis

How are you going to go about falsifying/verifying it?

 

[victorinus]

Explanation are not reasonable simply because they are claimed to be.

all you have to do is give me another explanation
-so-
we can argue which is more reasonable

 

[victorinus]

How are you going to go about falsifying/verifying it?

by coming up with another explanation that is more reasonable

 

[quatona]

by coming up with another explanation that is more reasonable

huh?

 

[victorinus]

huh?

do you have a reasonable explanation for the universe?

 

[Herman Hedning]

you keep using the word knowing
-and-
I keep saying that I have a reasonable explanation
-so-
do you have a reasonable explanation?

What seems a reasonable explanation for you is not a reasonable explanation for me.

 

[victorinus]

What seems a reasonable explanation for you is not a reasonable explanation for me.

do you have a reasonable explanation?

 

[Herman Hedning]

do you have a reasonable explanation?

No, but that does not mean I'll accept yours.

 

[HitchSlap]

I have not asserted anything -
I simply stated what I think is a reasonable explanation for why we are here -
it is a working hypothesis

I'd look into other options before you get too far down that track, if I were you.

 

[victorinus]

No, but that does not mean I'll accept yours.

you don't have to -
you have free will -
you get to choose

 

[victorinus]

I'd look into other options before you get too far down that track, if I were you.

what track are you going down?