This I Believe There is / is not a God (Religious, cover)

Dom · 05-26-2010, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by My Mind Sedate

The standard cosmological argument for the existence of God goes something like this:

The world is effectively, a giant causal chain. God (if we are to anthropomorphise this being) positions himself outside of the chain, he is the prime-mover-unmoved. God sets of this chain of cause and effect while he has no cause.

I believe this is St. Thomas Aquinas "First Cause" argument saying that everything has a cause but you cannot traverse an infinite series so there must have been an original cause. I think this has some logic but it is all assuming everything has a cause and that the universe is not infinite - both of which may not necessarily be true.

Personally I'm an agnostic. I don't believe that even if there was a god it would be possible to find out or understand it. For example, an ant cannot understand why we do some things they see us do. If there was a god, it would surpass our intelligence infinately (kind of like us to an ant) and there would be no possibility of us understanding it. Also, if a god was omniscient and omnipotent then surely that god would have the power to never be found - therefore we would not be able to find any proof of that god unless that god revealed themself to us.