Answer by Marco Ocram for Should one consider it a 'miracle' that the world...
We don't know why the Universe exists. If we suppose our logic and everyday intuitions about causes and effects apply to the Universe as a whole, then we might surmise that something caused the...
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You ask if there is any way around the infinite regression argument of needing a first cause. The short answer is that we don't need to, because the idea of a "first cause" outside of space and time is...
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Should one consider that the world [i.e., existence] exists a 'miracle'?As with this question on the creation of the universe, and this question on the existence of thought, I think the primary issue...
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Should one consider that the world's existence is a 'miracle'?I think that depends on the rigor of one's logic. Let me explain what I mean by that. I think the statement "I can't see that it is...
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It is a conceded fact that something exists. Martin Heidegger pointed to this as the most fundamental issue in philosophy, that something rather than nothing exists. Further if the world is an illusion...
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Miracles are used generally in theological/religious contexts. Outside of them they're seen as either rationally explicable as signifiers of theological truths that are uncovered by hermeneutics of...
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