RE: [split] Critical Thinking Skills
April 1, 2013 at 8:31 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2013 at 8:31 pm by jstrodel.)
Mir Infidel, God does not require a cause for his existence in the same way that observable, caused, finite entities require causes.
Why an infinite regress? Why not only a regress until it reaches the conditions of the first cause?
(April 1, 2013 at 8:29 pm)Darkstar Wrote:(April 1, 2013 at 8:25 pm)jstrodel Wrote: What is vague about it? "If something exists, there must exist what it takes for that thing to exist". Whatever the necessary conditions for something to exist, that is what it takes for the thing to exist.
If that is true, then there must be infinite regress.
Why an infinite regress? Why not only a regress until it reaches the conditions of the first cause?