RE: "Everything has a cause and an explanation" discussion.
February 18, 2015 at 8:30 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2015 at 8:34 pm by IATIA.)
(February 18, 2015 at 8:00 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Interesting answer. Explain?Causality leads to infinite regression or 'first cause'. Neither of which I find acceptable. Infinite regression should be a moot point by now, so no need to elaborate.
First cause has a similar issue. What was before the first cause? If one uses the "god always was" claim, we still have infinite regression in what was god's first thought and what was before god's first thought? The escape from that is "god exists out of time." That does not work either, because there must be a sequence of events from god and no universe to the beginning of the universe. We have causality again and infinite regression again.
More acceptable is that everything just is. Within our puny little brains, we have created time and causality to account for everyday perceptions, but this does not envelope the big picture at all.
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-- Homer Simpson
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
