1. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #82583 by aslipp on October 26, 2007 at 8:01 pm

TAG is generally a lot more complicated than it is described here, and poses significant epistemological questions that can't just be washed away by pointing out "Circular argument!" For TAGers (or pre-sups, whichever) assuming the existence of God (and the Christian God, at that) is precisely the point, because if you don't, all human thought, science, morality becomes completely unreliable. TAG isn't about proving anything to anyone - it's about undermining any other worldview besides that of the TAGer.

BitButter (#13) offers something very close to what's been going around my own head. Assuming that God is the foundation of human thought (man created in God's image, etc.) requires a further assumption: That God exists and has characteristics. Jade at the Internet Infidels board presented a much more comprehensive version of this here (formal debate): http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=80583

and here (peanut gallery discussion): http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?p=1507999