.... "No Cause argument"?
PLEASE notice, I am NOT talking about matters of faith here. I respect everyone's faith and this is NOT a question about religion/faith (or even the existence, or not, of God).
I am merely asking if a "philosophical and/or Logical" First Cause argument for the "creation out of nothing" is really not, in fact, debunked by its very own premise (e.g. First Cause for a First Cause, and so on)? ... In other words, do we truly comprehend what “nothing”, “Nothing” or “Absolute Nothing” mean(s) in “creation out of nothing”?
Or are we saying, as Saint Thomas Aquinas, postulated: God (call it the First Cause for our philosophical purposes here) is so perfect that He (It) does NOT have to exist? ... But even then, isn’t that merely a circular philosophical construct/assertion to obscure an internal fallacy - as in saying, for instance: Nothing comes from Nothing, except for Nothing Itself?
2006-11-08
14:06:55
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