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What is wrong with this premise?
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What is wrong with this premise?
Premise: Everything that has come into existence has had a cause.

What is wrong with the above premise?
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RE: What is wrong with this premise?
(January 18, 2015 at 3:43 am)Heywood Wrote: Premise: Everything that has come into existence has had a cause.

What is wrong with the above premise?

Nothing.

It is when you make the insupportable claim that god is the cause that the problems arise.
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RE: What is wrong with this premise?
(January 18, 2015 at 3:43 am)Heywood Wrote: Premise: Everything that has come into existence has had a cause.

What is wrong with the above premise?

We have never observed anything coming into existence that had a discernible cause, so we cannot say that this is true.
We have observed particles coming into existence without any definable cause, however: Quantum fluctuation
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
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RE: What is wrong with this premise?
By default I don't see why your premise should be true.
But can you specify what your definition of a cause is, and what you mean by something coming into existence.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: What is wrong with this premise?
(January 18, 2015 at 3:43 am)Heywood Wrote: Premise: Everything that has come into existence has had a cause.

What is wrong with the above premise?
For one, it's unsupported by any evidence. 2ndly, if causality only relates to entities that exist because in order to change --- which is what casualty is --- something must be for it to change from or into, then to say that causality involves change from nothing to something while yet nothing is at least the propensity to be, is to refute the notion that nothing is in fact not something.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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RE: What is wrong with this premise?
(January 18, 2015 at 3:58 am)Alex K Wrote: By default I don't see why your premise should be true.
But can you specify what your definition of a cause is, and what you mean by something coming into existence.

I would accept the premise as true because in my experience everything which has come into existence has had some cause.
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RE: What is wrong with this premise?
(January 18, 2015 at 4:12 am)Heywood Wrote:
(January 18, 2015 at 3:58 am)Alex K Wrote: By default I don't see why your premise should be true.
But can you specify what your definition of a cause is, and what you mean by something coming into existence.

I would accept the premise as true because in my experience everything which has come into existence has had some cause.

What in your experience has come into existence? And before you answer that question you need to very specifically define what you mean by 'come into existence' so everybody understands what we're discussing, and nobody tries to move the goalposts later in.
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RE: What is wrong with this premise?
(January 18, 2015 at 4:15 am)Darkstar Wrote:
(January 18, 2015 at 4:12 am)Heywood Wrote: I would accept the premise as true because in my experience everything which has come into existence has had some cause.

What in your experience has come into existence? And before you answer that question you need to very specifically define what you mean by 'come into existence' so everybody understands what we're discussing, and nobody tries to move the goalposts later in.

A Harry Potter movie has come into existence.

The movie didn't exist 100 years ago and now it does.
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RE: What is wrong with this premise?
(January 18, 2015 at 3:50 am)Darkstar Wrote:
(January 18, 2015 at 3:43 am)Heywood Wrote: Premise: Everything that has come into existence has had a cause.

What is wrong with the above premise?

We have never observed anything coming into existence that had a discernible cause, so we cannot say that this is true.
We have observed particles coming into existence without any definable cause, however: Quantum fluctuation

How do we know that these particles are not caused by existence, I.e. their cresttion is inherent within the physical laws of existence.
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RE: What is wrong with this premise?
(January 18, 2015 at 4:22 am)reiemdis Wrote:
(January 18, 2015 at 3:50 am)Darkstar Wrote: We have never observed anything coming into existence that had a discernible cause, so we cannot say that this is true.
We have observed particles coming into existence without any definable cause, however: Quantum fluctuation

How do we know that these particles are not caused by existence, I.e. their cresttion is inherent within the physical laws of existence.

I would sooner believe that the cause is non-local rather than they come into existence un-caused.
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