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Atheists: What do you think of the laws of cause and effect?

I was talking to an atheist and I said:

"Do you realize that all science and the legal system for that matter is based on the laws of cause and effect being correct?"

And he responded with:

"You just make up any old shït you want, huh?"

This surprised me because I thought atheists agree with this.

So whats your opinion?

Can you have science (or law) without assuming the laws of cause and effect?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
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    YES!

    So you do not really know science and think you are being clever!

    Science says that the singularity had no laws and no time!

    It could not have time because time requires something to measure it by and there was nothing to do that. The various Laws and cause and effect only became real after the big bang and probably took millions of years to develop and become stable!

  • SMAC
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    Name one thing in the universe that is demonstrably absolute in all facets of existence that proves cause and effect without variation or spontaneity.

    Cause and effect apply to a great many things, but this is not true for everything, more so the further away from our planet you get.

    Some elements of the universe are completely random, and, so far, have no visible cause OR effect and just ARE.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    The cause has to be shown to make it true.

    Theories are theories to be searched and researched just to get closer to the source, I suppose.

    ...at least I can't accept that deities exist out of no where. That's already a dropped theory as all of the theistic religions just...believe...no work shown. I admire the science of the cause-effect at least for forcing no one to believe while working hard at it.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Oh, yes. We DO know that for science and other related studies to be correct, we rely on the assumption that cause and effect is real. And there really is no point denying that cause leads to effect, at least in the universe we live in; our entire civilisation based on knowledge would simply not exist if that is not true. So of course an atheist will insult you for trying to question the fact.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Your conversation is incoherent. Either they misunderstood what you were asking, you are poorly communicating it, or you just made it up.

    In any case, your actual question is also incoherent. Quantum physics opens up a new and complicated can of worms that your question cannot begin to cover.

  • 7 years ago

    You are wrong.

    Quantum physics has no cause and effect, and relies of probability mathematics to make predictions.

  • 7 years ago

    In quantum mechanics they are examining whether situations where effect precedes cause can arise

  • ?
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    When a fly drops six inches, a pussy is bound to get wet!

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Everything on earth is a cause and effect. Its not the law of science. It is the law of earth.

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