Response to James Polk
Blog post in response to James Polk’s tweet
https://twitter.com/Nomad1689/status/737341018421354497
Meme posted at the bottom of the page.
James Polk, @Nomad1689 on Twitter
https://twitter.com/Nomad1689
Infinite regress applies only to a creator, not to an eternal Nature.
If a creator is a cause, it too must be caused.
If Nature cannot come from nothing, then Nature’s very existence disproves that nothing ever was.
If Nature is eternal, it has no cause, it just is.
An earlier blog post;
https://blog.answersinnumbers.org/2015/08/something-or-nothing/
The main chemical building blocks of life are also the most common chemical elements in the universe, inert Helium excepted.
Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen are those primary and common chemical elements.
Combination of basic elements in the correct proportions with the correct catalysts and conditions, a self replicating molecule is inevitable. From there, self replicating molecules that succeed if further self replication will do exactly that. Progress to life follows over long time periods.
Nature had billions of years allowing random and chance combinations.
Humans have had the knowledge necessary for less than 150 years, we’ve succeeded six years ago.
And before you even start, no, it is not possible nor reasonable to assume or assert that it’s possible to fully recreate all the environmental variables present between than and now.
Stop with “uncaused cause”, the phrase is an absurd oxymoron which goes straight to infinite regression and I think you know that. “Uncaused cause” is an irrational, illogical assertion.
You state “God is the only logical choice”.
As stated, you are making a 100% positive assertion of factual truth when actually it’s only an opinion similar to that asserted by Wm. L. Craig, noted professional opinionist and High School Debate techniques and tactics practitioner.
Your assertion, “God is the only logical choice”, further, is unprovable and unknowable, I assert that you assert that very unknowableness as proof. It is no such thing.
Another previous blog post;
https://blog.answersinnumbers.org/2015/11/a-false-positive-refuted/
Unarguably refutes all so called revealed scriptures as the human fabricated documents that they are while still allowing for a remote possibility that Baruch Spinoza’s philosophy has merit.
James Polk’s meme that’s been responded to here;
