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Originally posted by Infose:
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Trying to explain to a believer why a person might choose to be an atheist is difficult, especially when you only have access to one person’s case and reasoning. He points out that all of them have rather glaring flaws. This argument is simple; it maintains that since everything must have a cause, there must be a first cause to start everything else. This first cause is God and is exempted from needing a cause itself. Russell points out that if we can decide that one thing doesn’t need a cause, we have no reason not to say the world itself wasn’t the thing without a cause
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It is not only MrGordon that puts up the "first cause" argument for a God. The granting of an exemption to God to having a cause is especially mystifying as the implication is that this God is the most complex entity in the universe.
