RE: Arguments for God's Existence from Contingency
November 15, 2017 at 10:28 am
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2017 at 10:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Let's use the universe as an example. A a necessity of it's nature, it exists. This is due to the fact that the universe is nothing more than a term for all that exists...whatever that is. All that exists cannot be non-existent, by necessity of it's nature as defined.
This is an unsatisfying terminus, but it is an inescapable (read: necessary) consequence of the nature of the universe as we define it. It may be that there is no further explanation..or that if there is..we never discover or possess it.
Strikingly, believers accept precisely this terminus in the case of their god, and yet categorically reject it in the case of the universe. Particularly when they field arguments from contingency or cosmology.
This is an unsatisfying terminus, but it is an inescapable (read: necessary) consequence of the nature of the universe as we define it. It may be that there is no further explanation..or that if there is..we never discover or possess it.
Strikingly, believers accept precisely this terminus in the case of their god, and yet categorically reject it in the case of the universe. Particularly when they field arguments from contingency or cosmology.
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