Hume's characters pointed out in part five of his Natural Religion that every effect has a cause. Philo was quick to jump at Cleanthes and clarify that the infinity of God and God's perfection are things that do not have a cap on them. Cleanthes denied all of Philo's suppositions after the rant, and fired back that Philo used design of the universe in his own argument against it. I think that both of them are not grasping the view of the other as though they think they are. The point I gathered from this is that effects do always have causes. The central cause that began it all, though, was God in creation. It is something that is just hard for our feeble minds to grasp, as mentioned in part two of Hume.
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