From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!tiberio
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: cause and effect?
Article-I.D.: seismo.215
Posted: Fri Jan 21 09:03:29 1983
Received: Sat Jan 22 01:07:53 1983

there is no reason to assume just because you always see two events happen 
in the same order that one event causes the next. the falicy of cause and 
effect can best be described like this. if our view of the universe can
be likened to looking through a picket fence with one slat out (and why
not since we have after all only a few fallible senses),  then if a cat
walks by the other side of the fence first we see the head then the body and
finally the tail. the cat could turn around and we would see the same 
progression. after a while some faulty thinkers might get the impression
that the head causes the body which causes the tail. of course nothing could
be further fron the truth. the head body and tail are all part of the same
thing. so please don't try and prove the existance of god through some
contorted cause and effect chain that goes back through time to the `creation'.