RE: Why all god claims fail.
April 16, 2016 at 10:05 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2016 at 10:13 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(April 12, 2016 at 9:23 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Not only are they projections of human desires, there is no way to postulate "eternity" with an infinite cognition as the starting point. You cannot claim everything has a cause then ignore the implication that your "super cause" has to have a cause itself.
"Eternity" is only plausible as an up and down cycle without a cognition. Much like a light switch goes from off to on back to off. As soon as you postulate a super hero as the cause of that cycle, then it begs the question as to what caused that super hero, and what caused that super hero and so on. The problem is called "infinite regress".
What if you never flip the switch? Why is a continuously flipped one more plausible? Both states seem just as unimaginable to me. And yet one of them is true by necessity, it would seem... There doesn't seem to be a third option. There isn't even a second one, if you really think about it.