RE: My House Did not have a Builder (or did it?)
December 30, 2017 at 2:40 am
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2017 at 2:42 am by bennyboy.)
(December 30, 2017 at 12:30 am)Dan Brooks Wrote: So we are only to assume that a thing had a maker if we have had previous experience in having observed such thing being made? Such as, since we see a house, we know that there was an architect and builder, because there always is one. So then, we are to assume, that if we see things that exist, and have not had the experience of having observed it come into being, that that thing did not have a maker? Do we have to observe a new universe being made in order to be able to evaluate the situation, and therefore determine it if indeed had a maker, and what the nature of that maker is?
I think I can summarize your position: made up answers are better than simply saying, "I don't know."
OR you can observe reality, and make the best guesses you can. Nothing about our reality really tells us why or how it exists-- therefore the only thing to be said is that cosmogony is a mystery. And there's nothing wrong with that.