Sentences with phrase «as uncaused»

The article itself ended with a second religious homily, specifically implying that we have a soul and that using reason well brings us «closer» to an invisible sky - god that at one time acted as an uncaused first cause.

If you think causality is true at all, there are no such things as uncaused suspensions of physical laws («miracles») and therefore no possibility of the sort of miraculous events all religions claim as basic to their dogmas.

Not exact matches

Metaphysics would help us to see that the initial state of the universe could not be the uncaused cause of the universe, as Maudlin suggests would be possible.

Either God is eternal or uncaused - so you are at the same point as the atheists.

The word «random» as used in science does not mean uncaused, unplanned, or inexplicable; it means uncorrelated.

The highest cause may be (1) in every sense or aspect «uncaused,» in no sense or aspect the effect of anything else; or it may be (2) in some aspects uncaused, and in others causally influenced, but its manner of both acting and receiving influences may be the highest conceivable, hence absolutely «perfect,» although even so its whole being may not in every sense be perfect, because the influences as coming from other causes, say human beings, may be less admirable than they might be; or the supreme cause may be (3) in no sense or aspect uncaused, independent of other powers, hence in no way wholly exempt from the imperfections of the latter...

[13] This First Cause must be similar to the other causes, since He is aFirst Cause; yet He is also dissimilar since, as First Cause, He is uncaused.

And throwing in know falsified theology such as «first cause», when we know from quantum fluctuations that effects can be uncaused.

But he may have believed in something more like the Deists» impersonal god as the «uncaused cause» of the universe.

Even if you can't bring yourself to call it «God,» it is undeniable that the cause, whatever it is, must be transcendent and preexistent, as it had to have existed before everything else in order to have caused everything else; it must be immaterial, as its existence preceded the existence of matter; it must be intelligent, as evidenced by the complexity of the universe it caused; and it must itself be uncaused, existing necessarily rather than contingently.

«whatever it is, must be transcendent and preexistent, as it had to have existed before everything else in order to have caused everything else; it must be immaterial, as its existence preceded the existence of matter; it must be intelligent, as evidenced by the complexity of the universe it caused; and it must itself be uncaused, existing necessarily rather than contingently.»

1) Either you haven't shown this to be true or it is a «rhetorical tautology» around a «contingent enti.ty» and means nothing, i.e. if a contingent enti.ty is defined as an enti.ty which is dependent on something else, or has be caused, then by definition there would be no uncaused «contingent enti.ties».

Yes, it is well worth emphasizing that the abstract arguments for recognizing a god as the «uncaused cause» of the universe can not be used to defend the notion of a personal god, let alone the specific conception of god and his supposed take on human beliefs that Christians believe in.

As man is here seen to be essentially a being who wills, so God is primarily Will, and moreover sovereign, uncaused Will, which has no need to justify the willing on any rational grounds before the bar of intellect.

The Bible makes these exact claims — that God has always existed13 and that God created time, 14 along with the entire universe, 15 being described as an expanding universe.16 Why can't the universe be uncaused?

Steven Pinker says when it comes to ethics, ``... ethical theory requires idealizations like free, sentient, rational, equivalent agents * whose behavior is uncaused *, and its conclusions can be sound and useful even though the world, as seen by science, does not really have uncaused events.»

Contrary to the determinists, who see all events as the predictable result of antecedent causes, physical indeterminists insist that at the sub-atomic level there are happenings which are «uncaused,» arising spontaneously and unpredictably out of a mysterious depth to which our science of causes can not penetrate.

God is outside space and time; God is necessary, self - sufficient, uncaused... What Kraus... describes as «nothing»... [has] forces working upon it».

Not fair to cheat and just make intelligence an a priori infinitely improbable characteristic of your infinite eternity and explain the visible Universe however improbable you want to judge it in ignorance, with the an even less probable uncaused cause judged in even greater ignorance as it is out there where it can not even in principle be observed, slipping the pea neatly under the shell.