RE: The Best Logique Evidence of God Existence
July 15, 2019 at 5:41 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2019 at 5:47 pm by Belacqua.)
(July 15, 2019 at 5:25 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: But it's a trick. It's not an argument for "first" anything. It's an argument for a cause, not "first" cause.
Proximate cause .... ie "nearest cause", not first cause.
An omnipotent deity (in their world) could create any number of levels of universe makers, and one of them could be (in their logic) the cause of the universe.
In fact, this same deity could have created robotic universe creators who are sitting somewhere playing "evil universe" .... how many children can we give cancer to, today ?
The First Cause argument is specifically an argument that one cause has to be first.
Of course there are nutty or insincere people who will make up whatever they feel like. And not just among the religious.
There are also sincere people who work on what they think is good logic. You can disagree with the conclusions of their argument, but it's not fair to say they're just being tricky.