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THE UNIVERSE.
cause or at most an endless series of such causes. But if because the mind cannot rest in such infinity you try to stop short God the infinite regress and assert at any point of it a cause which is not an effect, which is its own cause, infinite and unconditioned, the conclusion in this case would be purely arbitrary. To assert the existence of such a Being as the Creator of the world is simply to conceal under a phrase the breakdown of the argument.
Again the argument does not prove that which it claims to prove, for such a Being is related to the world as cause is
to an effect. But the cause is as much conditioned by effect as effect is by the So in this case also the supposed Being would not be Absolute as this
cause.
argument tries to prove.
Again another difficulty presents us if we dive deep into the question. How can we conceive God before any such creation? Why was He so long inactive? What led Him to create this Universe at a certain point of time after such a long period of inactivity? In short innumerable difficulties
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To posit a is to
acknowledge a breakdown of the argument.
Impossibility of God as the creator of the world.
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