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Cosmological Logic (Posted on 2019-05-07) Difficulty: 1 of 5
A) Everything that has a beginning has a cause
B) The universe had a beginning

Therefore, which of the following conclusions is true:

a) The universe has always existed
b) The universe did not have a cause
c) The universe caused itself
d) The universe had a cause

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Some Thoughts This is always troubling.... | Comment 2 of 4 |
If you consider the Universe to be everything that is within nature...
(you could use the term multiverse if you prefer) then the conclusion that the Universe had a cause implies the cause was supernatural. In other words the creation of the Universe was via spiritual or god-like mechanisms.

Alternatively, take the infinitely rebounding universe - going from crunch to bang to crunch, etc, where the crunch hides all record of the past cycles through the conversion of matter to energy (thus, the term: "the unknowable past"). This idea contradicts premise B above. But that does't help: it raises a more worrisome (to me) idea that something exists forever with no cause. 

These metaphysical dead ends are certainly what have helped spawn the major religions and are of no end of frustration to us atheists. 

  Posted by Steven Lord on 2019-05-09 02:59:37
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