RE: How to debunk the first cause argument without trying too hard
July 23, 2015 at 12:34 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2015 at 12:34 pm by JesusHChrist.)
Mystic Knight, you are conflating creatio ex materia and creatio ex nihilo.
Theists constantly make this mistake when discussing first cause arguments.
One is creation from nothing, the other is creation from existing material, such as stars, planets and the existing universe itself.
Other than virtual quantum particles, is there evidence for anything else in all of our experience that is creatio ex nihilo?
The Big Bang most certainly does not qualify as creatio ex nihilo. The material was (as far as we know) right there in the singularity.
Theists constantly make this mistake when discussing first cause arguments.
One is creation from nothing, the other is creation from existing material, such as stars, planets and the existing universe itself.
Other than virtual quantum particles, is there evidence for anything else in all of our experience that is creatio ex nihilo?
The Big Bang most certainly does not qualify as creatio ex nihilo. The material was (as far as we know) right there in the singularity.