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Question:Suppose a person argued, "No one has experienced causality, so we cannot know that a certain cause leads to a certain effect." How would a Chrisian go about refuting this argument?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Suppose a person argued, "No one has experienced causality, so we cannot know that a certain cause leads to a certain effect." How would a Chrisian go about refuting this argument?

Punch them in the nose. Watch what they do. Then ask "now do you understand that a certain cause leads to a certain effect?"

OK, that's silly. Anyone who would say what your skeptic says is an idiot, how could anyone even say such a silly thing? Unless of course you are talking to an intellectual, then I understand.

Intellectuals are SO egotistical, so prideful, that they have lost all touch with common sense. They live in a thought world inside their heads and say silly things like that.

You could refer them to this thing called "science", specifically physics. Are they going to say the laws of physics do not demonstrate cause and effect?

Causality is more a matter of probability.
Some things are of such a probable consequence of others that causality is very rational as a description of our everyday world.