You Should Wash Your Hands Because of Parasites

Samar says that science does not indeed tell you to do or not do anything. Science can tell you about the risks or benefits of doing or not doing things but it doesn't tell you how to achieve those goals. The first cause argument also known as the cosmological argument was made in the middle ages by some co-religionists, Samar said. If god is the initial cause for everything because everything has to have a cause then god is by definition the uncaused cause uh which is why all the fancy philosophical versions of this argument don't just say something can’t come from nothing they add extra conditions and make up new causes.

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