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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.  
 
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.  
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Christian theology (and 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".  See [[special pleading]].
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Christian theology (and 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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== See also ==
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*[[Paradigm]]
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*[[Entelechy]]
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*[[Special pleading]].
    
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