Heywood, draw a circle on a piece of paper. That circle represents the universe or existence as we know it. Your premise applies inside the circle. There is no reason to assume it applies outside because all of our physical laws are a product of the circle itself. You may assume that everything which exists inside the circle had a cause but there is no reason to suppose the circle itself had a cause.
You spoke of the premise of everything requiring a cause being intuitively evident but your intuition is not even reliable inside the circle. Relativity is not intuitive. Quantum mechanics is majorly not intuitive. Someone once said that if quantum mechanics doesn't shock you, you don't understand it. Yet quantum mechanics has withstood every test we've thrown at it. It is undeniably real - despite flying in the face of common sense. Surely you can see that if you are unable to intuit some of the things inside the circle, you can forget about intuiting things outside it.
You spoke of the premise of everything requiring a cause being intuitively evident but your intuition is not even reliable inside the circle. Relativity is not intuitive. Quantum mechanics is majorly not intuitive. Someone once said that if quantum mechanics doesn't shock you, you don't understand it. Yet quantum mechanics has withstood every test we've thrown at it. It is undeniably real - despite flying in the face of common sense. Surely you can see that if you are unable to intuit some of the things inside the circle, you can forget about intuiting things outside it.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
