Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Turtles All the Way Down

Here is an excerpt from today's Slice of Infinity:

"Everyone from philosophers to three-year-olds has encountered a similar problem when curiosity leads them to the question, "Who Made God?" For if someone made God, then that being too would have to have a cause, and from there on out it might as well be "turtles all the way down." Instead of suggesting that some other being made God, theists claim that, by definition, God is the uncaused cause, what Thomas Aquinas called the "First Cause."