RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 7, 2023 at 8:53 am
(July 7, 2023 at 7:26 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: R1: The Universe began to exist. What began to exist exists contingently. Therefore, the Universe cannot be the (non-contingent) First Cause.
Actually, there is no evidence that the universe began to exist. What happened after the big bang was the expansion of the universe. The universe probably existed forever.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"