Multiple uncaused causes can't interact? Why not?
In the absence of evidence for multiple uncaused causes, it is
incorrect to suppose them. This is what is stated by Occams Razor that one should posit the
minimum number of causes
sufficient to explain a particular phenomenon.
In other words, we should not multiply causes unnecessarily. Thus, in the absence of evidence for them, it would not make sense to suppose the existence of multiple Causes if one Cause is a sufficient explanation.
Also, this Uncaused Cause could not be an unintelligent or impersonal force. For if it were possible for some sort of timeless, impersonal force to cause something, its effect would also be timeless. In order for a timeless force to create an effect
in time, it would have to intend it, and intention implies Mind.
Therefore, it is logically impossible to have two omnipotent, omniscient, immaterial, uncaused causes. Two uncaused causes cannot exist because if they did, then one would not be uncaused at all, but caused by the uncaused omnipotent cause. You cannot have two all-powerful beings or two all-knowing beings. The attributes such as all-knowing, and all-powerful among others, by nature make it impossible for more than one being to possess them.
Why is it ok for God to be uncaused but nothing else? We call that special pleading.
The response that this is special pleading is fallacious for two main reasons:
1. The greatest conceivable being has to be uncaused by definition because the greatest conceivable being cannot be caused by another.
2. This is not special pleading for God because that is precisely what atheists always have said about the
universe, matter, and energythe universe is eternal, and uncaused.
If atheists maintain that it is special pleading to say that God is uncaused (which is what He is by definition being the greatest conceivable Being), then they must also maintain that it is special pleading to say that the universe is uncaused!
Prove this:
"The universe contains only contingent beings"
This quote is simple to show to be true.
None of us caused ourselves to be. We are contingent upon something greater than ourselves. The world did not cause itself to be, nor did the solar sytem, nor did our galaxy, nor did the billions of other galaxies, nor did the universe itself.
Ex nihilo nihil fit states that from nothing, nothing comes. But the universe is something, therefore it could not have come from nothing. There exists something beyond the universe. This makes the universe contingent upon this Uncaused Cause (which is beyond space and time) for it's existence.