Author:
Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 06/ 9/05 3:22pm
In reply to:
Ben
's message, "Time... is on my side (yes it is)" on 06/ 8/05 1:10pm
Philosopher William Craig gives additional support regarding the First Cause being agent-causation:
The event of the universe's coming into being cannot be an instance of state–state causation or event–event causation, since the origination of the universe is not a state and the condition of the timeless cause not an event. But neither can it be an instance of state–event causation, for this seems clearly impossible: If the unchanging cause is sufficient for the production of the effect, then the cause should not exist without the effect, that is to say, we should have state–state causation. If the cause is not sufficient for the production of the effect, then some change must take place in the cause to produce the effect, in which we have event–event causation and we must inquire all over again for the cause of the first event. The best way out of this dilemma is agent causation, whereby the agent freely brings about some event in the absence of prior determining conditions.
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