PHIL 1200 Lecture 3: Lecture 3
15 May 2017
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If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world rather than god. There is no reason why the world could not have come into being without a cause. Nor is there any reason why it should not have always existed. There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. Where do we draw the line for exceptions of that which has no causation. Problem the harmony and rational consistency of the world that believers attribute to natural law and god"s perfect design is mostly a matter of perspective. In truth, the world is more random than we think. On other hand, where you can get down to any knowledge of what atoms actually do, you will find they are much less subject to law than people thought.
