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How to debunk the first cause argument without trying too hard
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RE: How to debunk the first cause argument without trying too hard
(July 23, 2015 at 12:40 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:
(July 23, 2015 at 12:34 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote:  The material was (as far as we know) right there in the singularity.
But it doesn't make sense to say the singularity always existed. If it always existed, it would never change and would exist now. While there is no going back before the first point of time, it also didn't always exist. So if we go backwards, every state moves from another state. Yet to say the first state of the universe simply eternally existed, would go against all the states we know of the universe: that they began to exist.

This is actually the real special pleading. And it's Atheists that often do this special pleading with the first state of the universe, ironically, accusing God of being special pleading.

I did not say the singularity always existed. That is the part of which humans are ignorant. We don't know what happened before Planck time and may never know. 

There is no evidence there was a "first" state. What happened over the Planck horizon is currently unknown, but may some day be determined. It's OK to say we simply don't know. Pop a goddit in there if it makes you feel better.

For now, any god has been reduced to existing on the other side of Planck time; safe and sound. A pitiful, small existence for a supposed mighty critter.
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RE: How to debunk the first cause argument without trying too hard - by JesusHChrist - July 23, 2015 at 12:44 pm

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