Why did God create cancer?

gaychessplayer

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27 Dec 07

pulzar

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28 Dec 07

Originally posted by bbarr
What about them? No.

You forgot to ask epiphinehas whether he was familiar with them too.
How do you know?

Retrovirus

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28 Dec 07

Cancer might be had to explain with religion, but is very easy to explain with science.

Actually, the development and accumulation of malignant mutations in tumor cells is a good and observable example of evolution.

bbarr

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28 Dec 07

Originally posted by pulzar
You forgot to ask epiphinehas whether he was familiar with them too.
How do you know?

I didn't forget any such thing. If you have an argument, present it.

mdhall

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28 Dec 07

Originally posted by pulzar
What about material, formal, and efficient causes as well? Or is the whole concept of causation merely a habit of mind as Hume maintained?

There's nothing Idealistic about Causation.
PS-Can you post your reference to Hume?

bbarr

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28 Dec 07

Originally posted by mdhall

PS-Can you post your reference to Hume?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/

Scroll down to the two sections on causation.

amenhotep4

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30 Dec 07

Originally posted by bbarr
I didn't forget any such thing. If you have an argument, present it.

I asked you to present your argument refuting Hume's assertion that the concept of causation is merely a 'habit' of mind. Still waiting.

SwissGambit

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30 Dec 07

Originally posted by amenhotep4
I asked you to present your argument refuting Hume's assertion that the concept of causation is merely a 'habit' of mind. Still waiting.

Hmm. A forum search shows that this is your first post on the forums. 😵

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30 Dec 07

Originally posted by amenhotep4
I asked you to present your argument refuting Hume's assertion that the concept of causation is merely a 'habit' of mind. Still waiting.

Hume never claimed that the concept of causation was a habit of mind. He claimed that the concept of a necessary connection between cause and effect was an error of projection. What we actually experience in cases of causation (contiguity, priorty and constant conjunction) leads us to mistakenly infer the presence of a necessary connection between cause and effect. Since I am not a thoroughgoing empiricist about concept formation or conceptual content, it is perfectly open to me to claim that our concept of causation is a priori and contains the notion of necessity. Rather than regularity serving as the basis for a projective error, I can claim that regularity provides empirical evidence for a necessary connection.

eatmybishop

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30 Dec 07

Originally posted by gaychessplayer
Question: Why did God create cancer?

Bad answer that I've heard many times: God did not create cancer. Rather, it came to be as a result of the Fall.

Why it's a bad answer: God himself created the consequences of the Fall, so he's obviously not off the hook for this one.

god did create cancer, just like god created war, hatred, murder, rape, torture etc....

however, he also created love, kindness, beauty, peace, harmony, laughter etc....

contrary to belief, god did not create only the good, you cannot recognise one without having the opposite to compare it to, god is not all about good, but about balance