Creationism

[Belacqua]

Thanks Belaqua.

So quantum weirdness such as Hawking radiation and radioactive decay pretty much show that the Greek αἰτία is 'out dated'?

There are things (Particles) and events (The decay) that happen 'spontaniously' without a previous αἰτία?

Cheers.

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No, quantum weirdness and spontaneous decay don't affect the first cause argument at all. I think you didn't read carefully. 

You're still thinking of "cause" as an agent which pushes something to happen. It may be the case that particles decay without that happening. (Such an agent is what Aristotle called an efficient cause. We're not talking about efficient causes here.)  

But all kinds of things must still be the case for such decay to happen. You still need the laws of nature. You still need time and space. You still need being. All of these are the αἰτία of radioactive decay.