(May 24, 2018 at 2:00 am)robvalue Wrote: 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.)
Therefore, we must accept that things that don't make any sense, i.e., that are unintelligible like an infinite regress of causes, can happen?
Why not believe any absurdity you decide to come up with?