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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 [[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.  

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".  See [[Special pleading]].

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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