Posted: Aug 12, 2017 2:14 pm
Greyman wrote:Congratulations!Wortfish wrote:The statement "only cats eat their own"is based on what we have observed to be true. That doesn't mean it is absolutely true...only provisionally true. That's how science works. Everything is tentative because we don't have all the information yet.
Now apply this to the first premises of Aquinas and Kalam and see the arguments fall flat. Since such statements as "every caused thing needs a cause" and "everything is moved by a moving mover" are provisional, there doesn't need to be a special exemption when they are found problematic. They could just be found to be wrong.
Well, yes, the fact is that the nature of the second mover/cause, which is moved/caused by an unmoved first mover/cause, does actually show that the observation couldn't have always held and so is not absolutely true.