RE: Dr. Craig is a liar.
April 16, 2016 at 9:54 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2016 at 9:55 pm by Jehanne.)
(April 16, 2016 at 9:34 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(April 16, 2016 at 9:01 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Your statement about scientific theories is just misleading and false, and I would invite you to provide some examples. General Relativity, Einstein's theory of gravitation, is being tested and retested and tested again and again right up to the present day. No religion receives such scrutiny because no religion makes any predictions which anyone can test. Theology is a predictionless academic discipline, and as the late Professor Carl Sagan once said, "Philosophers have no laboratory in which they can test their ideas." As religion makes no testable predictions, religious belief is unfalsifiable.
Yers, and as to the topic of this thread, all the repeatable evidence points to a hot big bang model and a beginning of the universe. Common descent evolution is not repeatable (or is at least attempts so far are unsuccessful). However while it may be repeatable, if that is the only evidence you are going to accept, then this type of evolution is absolutely false. It is a category error, to require the same evidence, for something to which it does not apply. Common descent evolution is a historical claim, and therefore you need to look at the historical evidence.
Your claims about modern evolutionary theory are just false; evolutionary theory has made innumerable and testable claims, such as the existence of transitory fossils. You can test evolutionary theory whenever you want, just by going out to areas of exposed rock from certain geologic periods. If you find a fossil of an animal or plant that did not exist in that epoch, then, "Voilà!", evolutionary theory has been falsified. Of course, individuals have made such claims, only to be refuted later on.
As for the "all repeatable evidence...and a beginning of the universe," some cosmologists hold to this, but not all. Here is a recent paper that demonstrates a beginning-less and endless Universe:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3093v3
So, no, the door is not yet closed. I realize that Alexander Vilenkin has argued for a Universe with a beginning, but even he holds to the possibility of a multiverse:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01819