RE: My views on objective morality
March 12, 2016 at 8:20 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2016 at 8:21 pm by Mystic.)
(March 12, 2016 at 8:17 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(March 12, 2016 at 8:06 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: It's actually obvious to me in many ways.
I will present one way that I haven't. I know you guys get bored of same arguments so I will present another reflection.
It's obvious I cannot be causing the whole universe to exist. Neither can one atom.
By the same logic, it's obvious to me, an atom cannot be causing itself to exist. Or whatever the smallest unit (quark) or whatever, is not what causes itself to exist, by the same logic that I know it cannot cause the whole universe to exist.
Existence existing is showing and manifesting existence that is caused. What constantly maintains God's existence? Himself. The eternal being that always existed is obvious to me the absolute existence by which all things exist.
What keeps everything from ceasing to exist, what keeps the laws there.
Now you may say things constantly exist by nothing. But surely existence is a phenomenon...the movement of time, the motion, the laws, the existence..all this is displaying something powerful creating it.
It is obvious right now even at this moment, existence is phenomenon that requires something to cause it to constantly exist. Either itself does that or something else. I already showed why I don't believe things constantly maintain their own existence. It's the same reason I would not believe a penny could of create the world and be maintaining right now. It's irrational to believe that. God on the other hand obviously can keep himself existing and keep the world existing.
Soooo... you are aware that concepts like causation don't apply beyond the big bang, yes? "Everything requires a cause," is not a universally true statement, without even needing to get into the lazy special pleading of requiring a cause for everything, yet putting god in a special category without any justification at all.
You're factually wrong, even ignoring the many cases in which you're logically wrong too.
Ok big bang happens, no cause. Now what? Everything keeps existing and existing without anything causing and maintaining it's existence? Or do quarks cause and maintain their own existence constantly?
This is not the cosmological argument. It has nothing to do with how things started. I'm not talking beginning, but about constant existence needing constant cause.
I don't believe quarks cause themselves to exist, rather, I believe it's more rational to believe in supernatural existing being causing them to exist.