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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 9, 2015 at 2:37 am)Ronkonkoma Wrote:
(September 7, 2015 at 12:43 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: That's silly.  Time started when the first particle was formed.

Either way it had a beginning. And things that have a beginning are usually begotten by a cause.

The original question was, why does God not need a cause? Because He had no beginning. 

Not all existence is material. Immaterial things like ideas and information, and even mathematics. These are all immaterial things that have an effect on us, so we know they exist. Logically God could act if He was eternally simple. And that is what all the great theologians have taught that God is eternally simple (i.e. Not made up of any parts/indivisible, and eternal - above space and time.)

In the meantime, they have all been presupposing that a god exists in the first place!
Do ideas, information, mathematics exist, if no human, or conscious being, is around to formulate them? Can M$ Windows exist without a computer?

I wouldn't interpret the current "big bang theory" as placing a beginning in time and space, but rather as a limit to our ability to perceive beyond... In other words, we don't know if there was a before, nor does it seem to be knowable that there was a before.
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RE: How to debunk the first cause argument without trying too hard - by pocaracas - September 9, 2015 at 5:18 am

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