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Originally Posted by Hardball47
If "causality can't be extrapolated to its totality," as you say, then it means that, like the black swan analogy, it is possible that there will be some thing that does not have a cause.
Can you take a wild guess what this causeless thing could be, or at least what some people believe it could be?
Well, there’s a lot of things it could be. It could be a magical pink unicorn. It could be a deity. It could be some type of physical quantized field. It could just be a property of the universe as a whole (ie the existence of the universe is without cause).
I’m well aware of what some people believe, but the beliefs of some people or even a vast number of people don’t equate to truth. Since we have evidence for the existence of various quantum fields and the universe itself, I would lean toward those rather than the other two possibilities in my list above (which certainly was not meant to be exhaustive).
Even if the deity explanation were correct, there seems to be a fairly wide gap between “A deity is the uncaused entity that has always existed and serves as a cause for the universe” and “An omnipotent, omniscient, loving deity who cares about humans and intervenes in the workings of the universe to assist them exists and is the cause of the universe. A deity as the first cause at best implies only deism, not theism.