(January 15, 2017 at 7:14 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: "Why is there something rather than nothing?" There just is.
"Why does the world have a rational order?" It just does.
"Why do causes produce regular effects?" They just do.
Yeah, those are reasonable answers...not.
Well, let's try your alternative:
"Why is there something rather than nothing?" God did it.
"Why does the world have a rational order?" God did it.
"Why do causes produce regular effects?" God does it.
Are those answers more reasonable?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'