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binary solo said:

All observed phenomena follow the principle of cause and effect. Nothing happens but that something preceeding it caused it to happen. If you are aware of anything to refute that basic axiom then please bring it to light.

 

The key point here is that only observed phenomena follow the principle of cause and effect (i.e. nothing outside of our universe). We have no way of knowing if this prinicple is in effect outside of our universe. 

In fact, it's pretty much gauranteed that this principle doesn't exist outside of our universe. Even if you believe in God, you believe the principle of cause and effect doesn't exist outside of our universe. In any theory, when you go back far enough, eventually you reach a point where something just "happened", or you'll discovered that something always existed. Neither of which match what we've observed in our universe.