(November 26, 2014 at 6:42 pm)Jenny A Wrote: There's no need to require a designer or outside controller of events for effects to be regular. It is natural that the same action produces the same results consistently. It is a result of the natural properties of the objects involved. Change the properties, change the results. But regardless, the results will be regular.
It’s fairly common to assert that the regularities of nature are brute facts that requires no further explanation. That said, can you think of a reason why it must be a brute fact other than you cannot give an account for the natural order. In other words, why is your assertion that the regularity of nature not an argument from ignorance.
(November 26, 2014 at 6:48 pm)Esquilax Wrote: We observe that cause A causes effect B, assuming that there isn't anything else to interfere with it. Aquinas' argument, that the only reason this is so is because of an intelligent agent directing it begs the question by not offering any justification for assuming that things would be otherwise without that interference...There's a burden of proof here that's not even being attempted.
My answer to you depends upon whether or not you deny that causes are conceptually linked with their effects by necessity?
