Expand Your Thinking

Everything that exists that we know of is contingent. Something being contingent means it exists because of something else existing that caused it to exist, or at least provided the necessary conditions, for it’s existence. Contingent beings thus depend in their very existence on other things that exist. They could have thus failed to exist to begin with if not for the existence of other things. Trees, rocks, planets, galaxies, and everything else in the universe apparently, all exist contingent upon other things. The entire collection of everything we know of is an interconnected, interdependent web of contingently existing things…