Why does your god give cancer to children
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filmflaneur — 2 years ago(January 13, 2024 09:20 PM)
There are two views here: one is that yes, the universe has a cause. But if one can accept that it is possible that a necessary supernatural entity created everything, then one can also quite reasonably think in the same way that that there could instead be a wholly natural cause, something also permanent, but natural, which eventually given enough tries, provokes everything else that lasts. ie a stable universe(s). The advantage of the latter suggestion
pace
Occam is that it does not involve a whole new level of reality.
The second view is that, logically, there is no reason why there cannot be infinite cause and effect other than it first seems counter intuitive. This is particularly more striking if we consider that, before the universe began, there
was no time
. Or to put it another way, the universe is both infinite cause and effect simultaneously.
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DrakeStraw — 2 years ago(January 12, 2024 04:17 AM)
Why limit it to cancer? My daughter died at 19, six months after a car accident. She never regained consciousness.
OTOH, my uncle turned 100 this year. He barely sees and hears. The answer seems to be that our time is so short here that it doesn't seem to matter.
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