(April 12, 2016 at 2:48 pm)Divinity Wrote:Vera causa* - The principle holds that explaining a particular effect or event requires the sufficiency to produce the phenomenon in question.(March 31, 2016 at 8:28 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:
My youngest daughter recently asked me: "If something created the Universe, why would it have to be God?"
Magic Universe Creating Pixies is just as good of an explanation.
* “A fairy godmother may be assigned in story as the cause of certain marvelous effects, but is not a vera causa." http://www.seadict.com/en/en/vera%20causa
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.