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Line 1: − ==Objections== + − The obvious and immediate criticism is to enquire what caused the First Cause. If the answer is 'nothing', then the [[Axiom]] that 'everything needs a cause' has been broken, and is no longer necessary for any event.+ + +
nothing like philosophy to get an argument going - pass the beer and pretzels!
The '''First Cause''' is the postulate, popular in most [[Philosophy]] and [[Theology]], that, since everything that happens must have a cause, everything is traceable back to a First Cause, usually referred to as [[God]].
The '''First Cause''' is the postulate, popular in most [[Philosophy]] and [[Theology]], that, since everything that happens must have a cause, everything is traceable back to a First Cause, usually referred to as [[God]].
A popular argument for atheism - along with being a popular "scientific" rebuttal of [[Intelligent Design]] - is the notion of the "[[infinite regress]]". Every action or being requires a cause, so if God exists, God must have a cause; that cause also had a cause, and so on.
Christian theology (and maybe some other religions as well) states that God is the "uncaused First Cause", that He is "eternally self-existent", or that He is "beyond time and space".
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