Hello, Soldat Du Christ. First off, I wanted to give you some kudos for persevering through this thread. It is not an easy feat to do what you are doing here (it reminds me of a chessmaster playing simultaneous games). With that said, I have some questions for you. To be clear, by asking these questions, I'm not looking to argue or engage in a high school debate; however, I'm very interested in learning your perspective on these matters.
IMO, the above statement uses human rationality to make sense of what caused everything to begin. However, does reality operate in strict accordance with a humanistic mindset? Could there be other ways to make sense of reality that we just haven't stumbled upon yet?
Why does this have to be attributed to a supernatural cause? Why can't it be some different way of operating that we just don't know about or are currently too limited to understand?
Soldat Du Christ Wrote:At some point there needs to be an uncaused first cause to set it all in motion
IMO, the above statement uses human rationality to make sense of what caused everything to begin. However, does reality operate in strict accordance with a humanistic mindset? Could there be other ways to make sense of reality that we just haven't stumbled upon yet?
Soldat Du Christ Wrote:The big bang doesn't prove anything in that regard, all it does is confirm there was a begining. Anything before that is theory. Any attempt at a material explanation is self defeating. Only a supernatural cause is plausable.
Why does this have to be attributed to a supernatural cause? Why can't it be some different way of operating that we just don't know about or are currently too limited to understand?