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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Harlem
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Feb 4th, 2004, 09:38 PM
Update: Posts changed so that the meaning of exists is consistent.
In responce to the criticism of my theory (which, as I said before, is more or less obselete since I discovered the cosmological argument), I was operating under different meanings for reality.
Change the argument so that it reads...
All existing things are caused
The natural world is an existing thing
Therefore, the natural world was caused
Note that this is different from the argument I've been making in this thread, which is based on time. Rather than showing the inconsistency of infinite time, the argument makes its basis on the principle of universal causuality.
As far as for what you just posted, that would change a lot of the terminology which I have used. Because I don't feel like editing my posts again - realise that the principle of universal causation only applies to things which exist within the natural world, rather than in reality. Time is similar - it only applies to things which exist inside the natural world.
You may note that because time cannot be natural, the principle of universal causation cannot be applied to time itself. But this is not the basis of the argument - rather, an infinite time would be inconsistent with the natural world's processes.
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