God As Grounding Cause

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Why can't all of reality have popped into existence for no reason at all? Or does "no reason" itself qualify as a cause?

Why can't there be an infinite regression of causes?

(Claims that things can't happen because they don't make sense to us is not sufficient; reality does not require us to understand it. Neither does it have to globally conform to models based on our local observations.)

Why can't 2 + 2 be equal to 5?

No reason. We assign meaning to the symbols. Whether or not the system you come up with is of any practical use is another matter.

Are you going to answer my questions?

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Depends on who you ask, but one camp says it cant because we assert it to be so - not much help for the god proposition, and the other because we don;t observe that to be the case - not much help for the caused universe proposition.

Sour little pickle, aint it?

Sure, his question wasn't very specific, so if we assume we're dealing with standard maths, then it can't be because we say it can't be. We have total control over what the symbols mean and how they function. This is completely different to trying to model reality. We don't get to tell reality how to behave.