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The Infinite Regress

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Theist: God exists.

Atheist: And how's that?

Theist: Because everything must have a cause, and universe must have been caused by God.

Atheist: Couldn't the universe just be eternal?

Theist: No, because the big bang theory proves that the universe had a beginning, and couldn't have been eternal.

Atheist: That's just speculation on your part. The big bang theory says nothing about the cause of the big bang, or the state of the universe prior to it. Science can't yet answer that.

Theist: Well even if the big bang wasn't the very beginning, that's just pushing it back one more stage, the universe had to be caused!

Atheist: The universe exists, can we agree?

Theist: Yes.

Atheist: Your beliefs aside, God is unproven, can we agree?

Theist: Yes.

Atheist: So if something has to be eternal and uncaused, explain to me how it makes more sense to argue that it must be an unproven entity of infinite complexity, rather than something of finite complexity which we already know exists?


No response.
Occam's razor: mercilessly shredding your irrational beliefs since the 1300's.

Roughly based on a debate I had.
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I like Occam's razor =)