(March 1, 2015 at 12:09 am)Pizz-atheist Wrote: It's the part that stayed with me the most. Hume had a really novel way of framing the atheist vs theist debate that most people don't go with. His tactic could be used to undercut the cosmological arguments; atheists can say the first cause isn't the universe or multiverse but it "probably bears some remote analogy" to the universe or multiverse. Why not? The analogy is just as good as theirs. If the first cause can be like a human, then it can be like a universe or other natural processes in the universe.It's as if when people believed all creatures were born of the earth and themselves made of clay, they made it a deity to be worshipped. Then they believed the Sun, which also creates and sustains life, was too a god.
I'm sure this time they're superstitious inclinations are totally legit though.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
