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The Unholy Ghost
Feb 19, 2011
Hello hi sort of butting in here but I have a question regarding the KCA.

I looked at a summary of it and it seems to be the old "Everything has a initial event that creates it, therefore the universe must have an initial event/creator". Before I dive into the KCA, I want to know— does it have an explanation for where God comes from? That seems to be the part that sort-of argument can never deal with.

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The Unholy Ghost
Feb 19, 2011

Juffo-Wup posted:

No, I think the conclusion of the argument is supposed to be that an infinite chain of dependent entities is inconceivable/impossible, and therefore that there must be a non-dependent entity to ground the chain. Call that entity 'God' and you're like halfway there I guess.

But both ideas— an infinite chain or a single beginning without origin— are inconceivable to the human mind.

Eh, sounds like the KCA isn't that great.

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