Subject: Re: Music, religion, etc.
From: Robbie (shok@netcom.com)
Date: Sat Jan 15 2000 - 22:19:39 EST
A long, long time ago, I mistakenly overlooked a mesage that said:
<< Nothing we have ever seen "brought itself into existence."
Everything we see happen appears to proceed from a cause. Postulating a
First Cause is the easiest thing to do. It is consistent with our
experience and accounts for all the facts.
Rather than what you're asserting, which seems an impossibility. >>
Something must exist that was not proceeded by a cause; that thing is
either the Universe, or God.
If the addition of God was necessary to explain the Universe, and did
not add more unanswerable questions (complexity), then I would but it.
But the addition of God is not necessary to explain the Universe, and it
does add more unanswerable questions (on the origin/nature of this
God). It fails my criterion on both counts, so I don't buy it.
Again, maybe one day I'll have a personal revelation. But I havn't had
one yet, and over the years, I've come to doubt the
sincerity/credibility of all such revelations I've heard of
second-hand. So, until then. . .
-robbie
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