So i came home, expecting this great feeling of release and relaxation. Instead, i realized how much work there actually is to do. My room needs an overhaul if i'm going to be staying here for the next couple of years, there are lots of final details to go over for the manufacturing and release of my band's album, and of course... the job.
I'm still looking for a part-time job while i try and get my financial business off the ground. I was thinking about getting a job at a high-end clothing store so i can get discounts on nice clothes and then once my financial business takes off, i'll have the wardrobe to go with it...hehe...
Everyone's been asking me, "how does it feel to be done?" To be honest, i can't tell... it just feels like every other summer, so far. In fact, it feels less like summer, just cause of the weather. My throat feels like sandpaper, which doesn't help with the summer-y feeling either...
An interesting question came to me today: "How do you witness to someone who believes in randomness?" I was stumped for a bit... and then thought back to all the hours I spent researching this topic in class. My solution is roughly based on St. Thomas Aquinas' First Mover argument... and it goes something like this:
If you believe in randomness, then you believe in cause and effect. If you believe in cause and effect, you have to believe that everything is caused by something else that came before in time and space. This "chain of events" is called the causal chain. This causal chain can't go back for infinity, therefore, there must be a first cause. But the only thing capable of being the first cause has to exist outside of the causal chain, otherwise, something must have caused it. And the only thing that can exist outside of the causal chain must exist outside of time and space, which must be God. If God exists, does it make sense that the world is completely random? Well, no... because obviously there's at least one act that was not by accident, which is the creation of the universe.
One obvious objection, of course, is that how do we know that the causal chain can go infinitly backwards in time? I can't answer that... i left my books in london...
I'm sure there's more to this, and i've probably butchered the argument, but i think it's something like that. If you have another way to argue against randomness/evolution or anything at all to contribute to the science vs. religion debate, i'd love to read your comments...
Now... back to cleaning my room...
I'm still looking for a part-time job while i try and get my financial business off the ground. I was thinking about getting a job at a high-end clothing store so i can get discounts on nice clothes and then once my financial business takes off, i'll have the wardrobe to go with it...hehe...
Everyone's been asking me, "how does it feel to be done?" To be honest, i can't tell... it just feels like every other summer, so far. In fact, it feels less like summer, just cause of the weather. My throat feels like sandpaper, which doesn't help with the summer-y feeling either...
An interesting question came to me today: "How do you witness to someone who believes in randomness?" I was stumped for a bit... and then thought back to all the hours I spent researching this topic in class. My solution is roughly based on St. Thomas Aquinas' First Mover argument... and it goes something like this:
If you believe in randomness, then you believe in cause and effect. If you believe in cause and effect, you have to believe that everything is caused by something else that came before in time and space. This "chain of events" is called the causal chain. This causal chain can't go back for infinity, therefore, there must be a first cause. But the only thing capable of being the first cause has to exist outside of the causal chain, otherwise, something must have caused it. And the only thing that can exist outside of the causal chain must exist outside of time and space, which must be God. If God exists, does it make sense that the world is completely random? Well, no... because obviously there's at least one act that was not by accident, which is the creation of the universe.
One obvious objection, of course, is that how do we know that the causal chain can go infinitly backwards in time? I can't answer that... i left my books in london...
I'm sure there's more to this, and i've probably butchered the argument, but i think it's something like that. If you have another way to argue against randomness/evolution or anything at all to contribute to the science vs. religion debate, i'd love to read your comments...
Now... back to cleaning my room...
posted by Dave at 9:59 PM
1 Comments:
that was intense.
almost as intense as that time i forgot how to sit.
why does randomness mean one believes in cause and effect though? couldn't it mean they don't necessarily believe in any cause and effect at all?
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