Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Amos the Prophet
That is not a legitimate uncaused event. All that can be said is that the cause is unknown.

I'm sorry, no. It is not that the cause is unknown, there is no cause. Causality is simply not a universal requirement, regardless of how much that offends our sensibilities or our requirements for consistency.

356 posted on 10/01/2005 8:42:57 AM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 339 | View Replies ]


To: general_re
Causality is simply not a universal requirement,

I am confounded. 'Splain, please.

395 posted on 10/01/2005 10:51:59 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (THIS IS WAR AND I MEAN TO WIN IT.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 356 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson