Hello again. I thought I'd present yet another classic atheist argument.

-Theists assume a great deal in making this statement. How can one possibly assume that not only the universe had a first cause, but this single first cause was the cause of all things? ie. Everyone has a birthday, but it's illogical to say that everyone has a birthday that coincides on the same day. Secondly, lets just take the premise that the entire universe was the result of a single cause. How can one then assume that just because the universe had a first cause, that this cause need be all-powerful, all-good, and all-knowing (ie. Christian). The idea of a God could extend in the form of a higher power, or a force, etc. -How do you know the universe hasn't always existed? That's just as inconceivable as a God that's always existed. And how it possible for a being to create itself? That seems contrary to everything we know.

bye now.

• message above was incomplete. My bad. - tenacious - October 15, 1999 - 03:13 UTC
  • Re: message above was incomplete. My bad. - Keith_Wilson/">Keith Wilson - October 15, 1999 - 04:59 UTC
    • Correction to last statement - Keith_Wilson/">Keith Wilson - October 15, 1999 - 05:08 UTC
    • I relate - tenacious - October 15, 1999 - 17:42 UTC