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The very idea of a First Cause of the universe is a false one. For a "first" involves the denial of any historic past, a "cause" involves the existence of a "before" and an "after"--that is, of time. But time is infinite and "first" denies it. So a "First Cause" is a contradictory idea.

-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 4 : Time, Space, Causality > # 76