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    It is not the case that A probabilistic argument for a cause of the Big Bang cannot go through.

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    • Quantum-mechanical considerations show that the causal proposition is limited in its application, if applicable at all.
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    • 1.Probabilistic reasoning requires a reference class of relevantly similar events, but the Big Bang is by definition the singular origin of all physical reality.
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    • 2.Without a well-defined sample space of universe-origination events, no meaningful probability value can be assigned to the claim that the Big Bang had a cause.
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    • 3.Hume's problem of induction entails that causal inference from a single unembedded event lacks the empirical basis required for probabilistic confirmation.
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    • 1.Quantum indeterminacy, as Quentin Smith argues, shows that subatomic events lack sufficient causes, undermining the universal causal principle invoked in cosmological arguments.
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    • 2.If the causal principle is not universally valid even within the universe, extrapolating it probabilistically to the origin of spacetime itself compounds the inferential failure.
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