Can you think of an effect that lacks an adequate cause? For example, you find a gallon of milk in your frig. You will not think that it just appeared or that chance quantum phenomena mysteriously came together to cause it. Instead, you will correctly conclude that an intelligent being had placed it in your frig. Why? Because other causal agents are inadequate to explain the appearance of the gallon of milk.
The cause(s) must always be greater than its effects. Without this, scientific inquiry would have to admit that some part of the effect is without cause, and that it just happens or appears. This conclusion is a science-killer!
To apply this conclusion to grander questions: What cause is adequate to account for the immutable, elegant, and universal laws of science? Whatever the cause, it would have to account for the laws being sustained unchangingly so that science can explain, predict, and the world doesn’t collapse as the laws shift. It must explain how they operate universally and uniformly, even to convey truths about other galaxies.
“Natural causation” cannot cause these things as it cannot explain the gallon of milk in the frig. The only adequate cause is an uncaused, eternal, omniscient, and omnipotent Being, the Being described in the Bible.
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We are on the same wavelet, brother. There is a lack of peace or even logic when one regards politics, social concerns, all the pc movements. Many times in the Word are sentiments reminding us that the world offers storms, obstacles, battles, deception. And still, He calls us to be of good cheer for He has overcome. Identification with Him is the only key fitting all the maze of tumblers to unlock what we search for, the only thing satisfying our desire for order, sense and soul- peace: to surrender my autonomy and attempts to go it my own way and to begin walking in victory in the train of the conqueror.
Milk? A fresh (pun intended) version of the famous watchmaker argument?
Skeptics have had fun with this, sometimes asking the follow-up question, "So, who created God?"
At that point, apologists typically offer something like, "God is outside of time and space. He had no beginning."
Thinkers sometimes conclude that there is REAL wisdom in admitting that some things aren't yet known, and that the claiming of one (of ten-thousand imagined gods) stifles progress ... being not unlike when Christians blamed witches for causing drought and crop failure.
This is a very interesting subject which each of us should probably consider.
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#1 Anon: Yes!
Proverbs 3:5–8 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
At that point, apologists typically offer something like, "God is outside of time and space. He had no beginning."
True, but this is a sound answer, not only Biblically but also logically. There must be a first and adequate uncaused Causer who is uncaused and eternal, without which we encounter the illogic of an infinite regress of causal explanations.
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