RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 14, 2023 at 5:24 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2023 at 5:24 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(July 3, 2023 at 9:43 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(July 3, 2023 at 9:07 am)Belacqua Wrote: No, that's not what the argument says.
It sounds as if you are anthropomorphizing the First Cause by calling it a being, with the indefinite article.
Thumpalumpacus is not trying to anthropomorphize the first cause but the OP is because he is trying to prove that god exists.
But the so-called first cause, if it exists, could be natural. The discovery of the quantum nature of subatomic reality shows us that no particular prior condition is either necessary or sufficient for some physical events such as radioactive decay, the behavior of electrons and photons, and potentially for the appearance of the physical universe itself out of a background of quantum fluctuations.
Quantum foam seems to be noncontingent...it can't not exist.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
