The Cycle of Never Ending Cause and EffectThere is no such thing as first or second, or as cause and effect. Humanity has constantly searched for the beginning of things asking questionssuch as ‘Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”. They search for answerswhich are simply entangled in a never ending cycle of events. Belief beforeevidence or evidence before belief, it doesn’t matter.
Both compound a cyclewhere before belief there’s evidence and before evidence there is belief and soon. If the mind teaser about the chicken and the egg is traced back to itsbeginning, for example taking the generations and going back on time, there willcome a point where the beginning of things will be put under observation. Howdid things begin’scientists believe that our world began with the Big Bang,yet for the Big Bang to originate there must have been the Sun and the Universeitself. Then what was before the Universe? An atom? And before the atom? Theword “nothing” is a common answer to these questions, supposedly ending theinfinite quest for knowledge. Yet before the “nothing”, there must have beensomething else, maybe more nothingness, who knows? The fact simply is thathumanity doesn’t know what came first and have thrive to come up with answerswhich range from the scientific point of view to the religious. The religiousanswers, which are completely based on belief, used to be entirely accepted bypeople, but as science began to flourish, scientific answers, which use logicand reasoning, became the primary source for belief.
Now a days it is importantto have evidence in order to believe. Yet when scientists discover new things,do they just find the evidence? Or they believe that something is there andbegin their quest to find it? Again, be it one way or the other, it doesn’tmatter. Let’s take for example that the scientist believed that something wasthere, his/her belief must have been based on evidence. How else then could theyhave thought about it? Yet that evidence in return, before being discovered,was based on belief and so on. It is all a cycle indeed.
One cannot say which came first. The beginningof things will always be an unknown if humanity keeps searching for it. Thereis no beginning. The cycle causes effects which in return cause causes whichcause effects. In a family where there is constant fighting, problems are theresult of other problems and so on. One would have to trace all the way back tosee what or who was guilty from the beginning.
The same applies to the searchfor the beginning of times. In order to stop the fighting one would have tostop the cycle. Everyone in the family would have to forget passed events andstart all over, from the beginning. Yet because no such thing as completelyforgetting exists, someone would again do a misdeed that would spark thefighting chain. The world is a sphere which rotates without stopping.
Once itstops, the cycle of never ending cause and effect keeps on going. As a newbegging takes place, the cycle would be rotating. It would be the same cycle,not a different one. The destruction of our world would indeed cause thebeginning of another; if the present world had never been destroyed then the newone would never have been formed. A counter argument to the idea of a never ending cycle would easily bedisregarded.
One can say that the cycle must have been put into motion by aforce as objects on earth are given a force to begin their motion. Yet thatcycle would not be the same one. The never-ending cycle of cause and effect, ofbelief or evidence, of first and second, goes beyond all parameters. It is thecycle itself which causes everything. It would be the cycle which would causethe force to put a smaller cycle into motion.
The cycle is an entity in itself. It has always been and will always be. Therefore, belief or evidence, are the result of one another. One causedthe other which in return caused the other. Both are part of the cycle and willremain as part of it forever. Philosophy
