RE: Non-existence
August 11, 2009 at 8:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2009 at 8:50 pm by Jon Paul.)
(August 11, 2009 at 8:14 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: So personal experience AND the cosmological argument for the existence of god? Ok, I think I understand what you are saying. Everything appears to have a cause so there must be a first cause. What is wrong with "The Big Bang" as a first cause? Why the extra step of a non-contigent being starting it all?First, there is no one "cosmological argument"; rather, that is a whole class of arguments. Second, I have several arguments, only one out of which might be called in the class of cosmological arguments. Third, any such arguments are irrelevant to this thread, since this is about what we can know on a foundational level, that is, properly basic beliefs, not propositionally evidenced beliefs, so please reserve that to the already-existing threads about it.
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