RE: What is wrong with this premise?
January 24, 2015 at 8:22 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2015 at 8:34 pm by IATIA.)
(January 24, 2015 at 4:32 pm)Heywood Wrote:It would seem that your premise insists that this be the thread as I am sure that is where you are headed.(January 24, 2015 at 3:40 pm)IATIA Wrote:Maybe I'll do a thread on it someday.(January 18, 2015 at 3:43 am)Heywood Wrote: Premise: Everything that has come into existence has had a cause.Then what "caused" god?
What is wrong with the above premise?
As to your premise, it is false.
If we have a 'first cause', the problem is what was 'before' the first cause. An infinity before the first cause would never pass to allow for a first cause. There must then be nothing before the first cause which then means the first cause always existed.
Whoops! Same problem.
If the first cause always existed then we are still dealing with an infinity and infinite regression just does not work. Therefore, time does not exist, everything just is and there is no first cause and causality becomes just an artifact of our linear thinking. There is no first, there is no last, there is no before, there is no after. Everything just is.
We do not need a god either as nothing was created. Creation requires causality, which requires time, which again invokes infinite regression.
I know you are going to argue this until you are blue in the face, but no argument against this can avoid the infinite regression. Do not feel too bad about this as the atheists here will also be attacking my particular views, so you will have lots of help. Go figure. Atheists and theists working together.
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy