(January 18, 2015 at 4:12 am)Heywood Wrote:(January 18, 2015 at 3:58 am)Alex K Wrote: By default I don't see why your premise should be true.
But can you specify what your definition of a cause is, and what you mean by something coming into existence.
I would accept the premise as true because in my experience everything which has come into existence has had some cause.
Your experience is extremely limited. You're a tiny little human on a tiny little rock towards one edge of one of at least a hundred billion galaxies, with a lifespan which is such a tiny fraction of the age of the Universe that it is approaching zero.
What's more, you have never ever observed anything coming into existence. You have observed things changing form. And things change form all the time, without any sentient cause.
If you want a tautology, you can say that every effect has a cause. But that's as far as it goes.
