(April 2, 2013 at 11:55 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: If we go by the premise
"everything requires a cause for existence"
It would imply at least one thing is the cause of it's own existence. Cause is not necessarily linear.
The premise is self-contradicting, unless we agree that something need not exist in order to cause something else to exist. In which case, universe!
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould