RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
February 26, 2022 at 7:38 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2022 at 7:38 pm by Belacqua.)
(February 3, 2022 at 1:25 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: Initial conditions determine the probabilities of "caused" events, but do not determine the actual events themselves.
This is a bit closer to the way theologians use the word "cause."
Most people today use it to refer only to efficient cause. In theology, "causes" means something like "all those things that must be the case in order for X to be the case." In that sense, everything in physics has causes.