(August 15, 2020 at 7:30 am)Belacqua Wrote:(August 15, 2020 at 7:22 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: So did something start the universe. I don't know. It may have been part of an eternity of past causes and effects.
BUT what I can say is that the chances of it being done on purpose by a sentient being is as close to zero as makes no difference.
The Thomist first cause argument isn't about the universe having a start. I don't know why you'd bring that up in this context.
It kinda is. The "first cause argument" by theists places god, a sentient being as the first cause. As everything is pretty much known up to the moment of the big bang, the start of the universe then my read is that it is exactly abut the universe having a start.
What is your take?
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