(January 16, 2017 at 6:23 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(January 15, 2017 at 9:37 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Well, let's try your alternative:
"Why is there something rather than nothing?" God did it.
"Why does the world have a rational order?" God did it.
"Why do causes produce regular effects?" God does it.
Are those answers more reasonable?
Except those do not fairly represent the answers....
Yet saying "There just is" to those same questions does?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'