Logic Times

First Cause

Posted by Aslan.  Comments (6)

Either we are created (First Cause) or we are not (always existing in an infinite regression of “first” causes).  We observe that cause and effect is an inflexible law in our physical world.  If we conclude that the universe is not created (it has always existed), we violate observation. We would be suggesting something foreign to physical phenomena to explain this most important question.  If, however, one posits a Creator, then logic is preserved. Who created the Creator?  No one – a Creator does not require a cause.   Why is this so?

Any requirement for a cause is necessitated by time. When you start bleeding, you search for a cause. A cat scratched you. This happened first - the cat scratched you and you bled. Notice the linkage to time. You cannot have the opposite - you bleeding and then the cat scratch you. Time is the "matrix" in which cause and effect are embedded. And every state in this universe extends from a previous state.

What happens if we get rid of time? Impossible for our brains to get around this concept - we are prisoners of time. But from a standpoint of definitions, something independent of time is therefore independent of cause and effect. Consider a state of stasis or unchanging existence. There is no before and after - just existence. Since there is no before, there is no need to answer the question, “what came before...?”  A Creator independent of time by definition has no beginning and requires no cause.  And for this definition to be useful to us, there would need to be a beginning to the universe before which we cannot observe and time would need to be a physical, captive aspect of the universe. Einstein demonstrated that both of these requirements are satisfied!

Certainly, there is no proof of a Creator as first cause, just as there is no proof of existence without cause. However, the former, using pre-Relativity definitions, fits with post-Relativity observation, while the latter violates observation altogether.

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