Goal: keep asking the question 'why' of any action, and see where you end up. For instance: why did you eat food today? To stay alive. Why do you want to stay alive? To enjoy myself. Why do you want to enjoy yourself? Because it's enjoyable, duh! Why should you obey that primal urge? Umm...because primal urges keep me alive. (now we're getting circular).
Anyway, the chain could take other courses too. The idea is that you should find a logical end to the chain. This would probably be a fact like, "I should give God glory because he deserves it. (In other words, I'm supposed to.)"
Of course I have not explored every iteration of the chain, but hopefully we are forced to end up with God.
Logic: this is standard cause effect theory. Two posts previous from this one I explained this in a little detail, and I've cut and pasted that below: Now we reach backwards using logic. All things have a cause; there's a mechanical position of the universe that preceded and cuased the current position. (oooh! this bring up so many ideas about intertia!) This method also deals with infinity. We either have an infinite number of mechanical states, or there was some 'first cause' that didn't/doesn't have a cuase, i.e. God. It would make sense that this first cause must be unaffected by/greater than time.
Data: supposing that the world is finite, we could theoretically sum everything about the world. Suppose that we measured the total mass of the universe and found it to be 8E241 kg.
Hm
Why not 7E241?
Of all the possibilities that this universe could have produced, why on earth (or why in the universe haha) did it 'chose' this one?
I could extrapolate, but I have to run to church.
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