firstcauseargument | Attacking Causality is Self-Refuting - R. C. Sproul, PhD @firstcauseargument | Uploaded May 2013 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
The lawof causality showsthat an effect must have a cause (the first premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument is based on this law). Oddly, enough, atheists are attacking this premise! Science simply cannot be done without causality. RC Sproul shows that attacking causality is self-refuting:
"The first question we ask of those who attack causality is Why? What is the reason for or the cause of the attack on cause? There must be a cause for the denial of cause. The attack on cause is self-refuting, for there must be a cause for the attack. Suppose someone says there is no cause for the attack on cause. That might satisfy us because it 'explains' why there need be no cause for the attack on cause. But then we must ask, what caused our satisfaction with no cause? Is the cause of the satisfaction with the causeless attack on cause that there is no such thing as cause? Here causelessness is the cause of our being satisfied with causelessness. So even causelessness is enlisted in the service of cause."
- R. C. Sproul, John Gerstner, and Arthur Lindsley, Classical Apologetics (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1984), 110.
The lawof causality showsthat an effect must have a cause (the first premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument is based on this law). Oddly, enough, atheists are attacking this premise! Science simply cannot be done without causality. RC Sproul shows that attacking causality is self-refuting:
"The first question we ask of those who attack causality is Why? What is the reason for or the cause of the attack on cause? There must be a cause for the denial of cause. The attack on cause is self-refuting, for there must be a cause for the attack. Suppose someone says there is no cause for the attack on cause. That might satisfy us because it 'explains' why there need be no cause for the attack on cause. But then we must ask, what caused our satisfaction with no cause? Is the cause of the satisfaction with the causeless attack on cause that there is no such thing as cause? Here causelessness is the cause of our being satisfied with causelessness. So even causelessness is enlisted in the service of cause."
- R. C. Sproul, John Gerstner, and Arthur Lindsley, Classical Apologetics (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1984), 110.
