Wookie writes:
But even if we assume one, the idea of an infinitely back temporal dimension is still illogical.
Logic is of no use when trying to understand cosmological problems. You need maths
(I'll let you figure out why)
Terrible move, lazy.
Ultimately, yes, one would have to insist on a first cause.
There's no reason to assume this - unless of course you'd care to give us one.
It may or may not be that the first cause generated our universe, but that a first cause exists is the only thing that makes sense.
Again 'sense' has nothing to do with it. Pretty much everything we currently know about the universe makes no sense in the normal usage. The only way everyday people make sense of it is what people have done for thousands of years and that's make up human stories about it. Gods are useful - they fill in the holes where knowledge is absent.
Civilisations have made up thousands of stories and are still doing it - Mormons spring to mind. The stories people believe are almost always the ones they were brought up to believe in. There's no known case of anyone believing in a god that they had never heard of - a child born to Muslim parents does not spontaneously believe in Jesus Christ.
Logic and belief have nothing to do with the physical understanding of the universe. Personally, I've no idea why we imagine us evolved apes have any kind of chance of working this shit out- we just do our best and we've only being trying for a couple of hundred years. Haven't even started.
Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.
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