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   >>>>>> restricted to the domain of methodological naturalism, i.e. they   
   >>>>>> describe mechanisms within the universe.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Why?   
   >>>   
   >>> Again, why?   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> A First Cause explains why the universe exists (e.g. why there   
   >>>>>> something rather than nothing, and why physical laws exist).   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It explains nothing. You create an exception to causation just by   
   >>>>> saying it's an exception. The First Cause needs no explain because,   
   >>>>> so there.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
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