[Laissez-faire capitalist]

What say you?

[snarks_when_bored]

A Refutation Of Hume's Attack On The Principle Of Causality II

You've caused me to wonder how what you've written effects the refutation you seek...

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Atheists,

1.) Please provide Empirical evidence that our universe is a universe without cause, or that the effect - the Singularity which expanded and is still expanding (our universe) - is an effect that came about from nothing.

2.) Please provide Empirical evidence that our universe has always existed and will contract again over and over again.

3.) Please provide Empirical evidence that our supposedly naturalistic universe was preceded - on and on Ad Infinitum - through purely natural means. In doing so, would this not be an Ad Infinitum natural means logical fallacy?

[RightWhale]

There I was cruising down the highway just keeping the Chevy aimed and the gas pedal against the firewall. The engine temperature and oil pressure idiot lights were dark but I was watchning them anyway. A sign flashed by ‘Coal Town 3 Miles’ so I took my foot off the gas and let air resistance begin to slow the car. After a while I noticed individual trees and the solid white line in the center of the road was actually a dashed line. When the car slowed to a crawl I glanced at the speedometer. 95 mph. So I logged into FR and found this thread.

[spunkets]

What’s a singularity? Who says it came from nothing?

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

If, according to Hume, all knowledge comes from experience, and all knowledge exists as individual units of experience, when did Hume experience effect without cause, or (the example often given) an eight ball moving without the cue ball hitting it (or any outside cause not hitting it)? How then did he acquire knowledge that effect can occur without cause?

Further, what Empirical evidence did Hume give to support the contention that (for example) an eight ball can move absolutely without any outside cause?