This might be a better way to understand it, God is logic. Just as a circle is only a circle because it was created God in the way it was, it would be God contradicting God to make a circle square. A circle is a round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the center). This is the truth of a circle. God is truth. God is logic. Truth is not self-contradictory. God is not self-contradictory. God will not contradict Himself so HE will not abandon truth, thus will not create a square circle. A circle has a truth value, if anything but a round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the center), it is not a circle. God is truth and is not self-contradictory, thus the circle would not have a truth value of being a circle if it were square. Something can not be itself and something else at the same time. This statement is a universal, unchanging, and based on Logic which is God.
If the laws of logic are not absolute then truth can't be known. If you are trying to tell me that the law of non-contradiction is not absolute then what ever you tell me can't be know to be true.
So you trying to tell me that the law of non-contradiction is false? And you make the claim I am special-pleading?
What can be done without it?
If you want to claim that the law of non-contradiction is false, then we lack any foundation for rationality. All the laws of logic are necessary and absolute.
I don't need to really. Causality is a property of the natural world.
How does a thing that didn't exist and then comes into existence come into existence without causality?
Nothing brings itself into existence, thus the universe did not bring itself into existence. How does the universe exist?
This is not based on whimsy. The universe is a physical "thing" that came into existence, we know that no physical thing brings itself into existence. Thus, the universe had to be brought into existence and that which brought the universe into existence could not be physical as it would also need to have a cause, it would have to be outside of the universe and not part of it. God is not physical and is outside of the universe.
What you are saying here is that since we can't know how God brought forth the universe, and since it is not in the same way that the universe and causality work, it is false? Truth is truth and whether or not we can determine it doesn't change the fact that it is true. Now while it might be true that God didn't use the same form of causality as we see in the physical world, which to me makes sense since He is not of the physical world, it is not to say that He could not have caused the universe to exist. This is an assertion on your part.
How ironic. In fact, logic only makes sense in my worldview. You have not proven that God is not omniscient, you have asserted that the Theorem proves it but you base this on unfounded assertions. All the laws of logic only make sense within the Biblical worldview.
First, you correctly summarize my views by saying that the law of non-contradiction is not absolute. But then you invoke a strawman by saying that I want to contend the law is false. Please don't do that.
You went on to say that if the laws of logic are not absolute then truth can't be known. Correct, hence my nihilism. How are you going to refute this? By appealing to the consequences? If knowing the truth is preferable, that doesn't mean reality conforms to this preference. Will you refute me by saying that nihilism is self-contradicting? Great, as long as you can prove the assertion known as the law of non-contradiction. Except you can't. It's an assertion, nothing more. It conforms to our experiences in the world, but when you look at quantum mechanics you see contradictory states of affairs. An electron can have up spin and down spin at the same time, analogous to you being both alive and dead at the same time. An electron can be in location X and location Y at the same time and even interfere with itself because of this. The law of non-contradiction is held as tentatively true, but is not absolute and nihilism wins.
Second, you are saying that God is logic. I find that to be baffling because I thought you refuted the idea that he is a Turing machine. Also, I already established that God cannot even perform logic for the purposes of acquiring new information if he is indeed omniscient, which necessarily renders logic as trivial and pointless to him. Yet you define him literally as logic.
Third, you haven't shown me in what way God's act of creatio ex nihilo is similar to the causality we know.
Let me put it like this. If aliens visited us and showed us technological wonders, we would in principle either know how their inventions work or be able to learn. We would understand that with enough energy or resources, we could replicate their technology. Buy whatever God did, we not only cannot replicate it, we not only cannot understand it, we cannot even describe it on a basic level. How did God cause the universe to exist? You have absolutely no idea, and you have no way of coherently describing an analogy. So it is utterly invalid for you to say that it was a causal event. The honest assessment is that you don't know. And when you reach that mountaintop, you'll see the atheist has been waiting there the whole time.
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