The beginning is either magic or God.
The beginning is either magic or God.
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Nope! By definition there is cause before magic and God.
In the Beginning there was God. God created the Universe. He seems to have used natural processes and natural laws to bring it about and sustain it. “Magic” seems entirely unnecessary for the formation and maintenance of the universe.
Aristotle was not a believer in creation. The mythology of the Greeks, which was a kind of departure point for philosophy, believed that events came in cycles. The idea of A beginning of all things, and an end of all things, is basically Christian. His metaphysics was basically a logical once, and it is not the mythical mush that modernists seem to t hink it is, but a reflection on the limits of logic and human science. Modern scientists don’t like to think about such matters. Ancient men painting in caves had loftier thoughts than the gnomes in the modern caves called labratories.