The First Cause Argument is still frequently invoked by theists of all stripe and it sometimes seems impossible to get it into their heads that the argument is fatally flawed by the Special Pleading fallacy. Nonetheless, they persist with it even though it isnt taken seriously by scientists and philosophers anymore. Heres the entry on this argument from the Rationalwiki: The biggest objection to the argument is that it suffers from special pleading. While everything in the universe is assumed to have a cause, God is free from this requirement. Therefore it does not address the question of who or what caused God. Secondly, even assuming that there is a first cause, the argument fails to address how can we know its identity. The assertion that it must be the particular God that the arguer has in mind is a complete non sequitur. Why not the deist God? Why not some kind of impersonal, eternal cosmic force? Why not shape-shifting aliens from another dimension? There is nothing in the argument that would allow one to determine any attributes of the first cause.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 02:41:33 +0000
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