RE: What is "FAITH"
July 14, 2013 at 8:04 am
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2013 at 8:07 am by genkaus.)
(July 13, 2013 at 11:17 pm)Consilius Wrote: Everything has a cause, except the thing that caused cause.
The universe was caused by a Big Bang 4 million years ago.
What caused the Big Bang? A singularity of some sort. What caused the singularity? We can continue to go back. We can only arrive at an uncaused cause.
We don't need to go back any further. The singularity was the uncaused cause. Disprove that.
(July 14, 2013 at 12:27 am)Consilius Wrote: Time and space were brought into being at the beginning of the universe along with matter and energy.
We live in a universe where everything has a cause. Why would a changing universe where cause and effect have a role in absolutely everything conceivable be itself uncaused? Why should our understanding of cause and effect stop with the vessel of all cause and effect?
Because - and read slowly, so that you understand - causation is a spatio-temporal phenomenon. Since time and space are aspects of universe and do not exist "outside" it, the causation is an aspect of universe as well and therefore does not apply prior to it.
