
CC015: Exploring the Contingency Argument with Dr. Josh Rasmussen (Part 2)
Capturing Christianity Podcast
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The Fallacy of Composition
Ike: We talked about this right after the podcast and the discussion that i had with him. The idea is that because some contingent things have explanations, or causal explanations, that doesn't mean that all contingent things have causal explanations. That's inferring from parts to holes. And sometimes those inferences are bad. For example, every part of an elephant is light in weight, but that doesn’t mean that the whole elephant islight in weight. So how do we know that we aren't making a similar flaw in our reasoning when we're thinking about and again, this isthis actually only affects pathways one. I think it's actually only pathway one here. It doesn't
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