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How to debunk the first cause argument without trying too hard
RE: How to debunk the first cause argument without trying too hard
(September 19, 2015 at 9:50 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:
(September 19, 2015 at 9:16 pm)Losty Wrote: How do you know the universe itself is not an eternal timeless being?
Because it's subject to time. For example, part of the universe is the Sun. The Sun is subject to time.

Are you at all familiar with the fallacy of composition? Because this argument of yours is literally just that.

You can't point to constituent parts of a thing and assert that therefore the whole is identical to those parts. What's particularly laughable about this instance is that we've barely explored the visible universe and yet you're comfortable making fiat assertions about the parts we don't even know about, and what the exterior of it is like. It's like a microbe in a puddle saying that it sees water all around it, and therefore the entirety of reality is water.
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RE: How to debunk the first cause argument without trying too hard - by Esquilax - September 20, 2015 at 2:40 am

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