RE: Dr. Craig is a liar.
April 28, 2016 at 9:00 pm
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2016 at 9:01 pm by Jehanne.)
(April 28, 2016 at 6:47 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(April 28, 2016 at 6:39 pm)Jehanne Wrote: The first two premises of the KCA are suspect ("that everything that begins to exist has a cause" and that the "universe began to exist"). Another great lecture by Professor Sean Carroll discusses this point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew_cNONhhKI
53 min.WTH. ... Your going to have to present the reasons why you think they are suspect.
Because modern quantum field theory, as Professor Carroll notes, describes physical events that happen without any cause whatsoever. Likewise, just because our Universe has a finite age does not preclude an infinite age for the multiverse, a beginning-less Cosmos. Craig is simply wrong when he says that the BGV theorem applies to a multiverse; no cosmologist is making such a claim. Besides, with Hawking's no boundary proposal, a sufficient answer exists for the origin of our Universe, one of finite age but also one without a beginning. We can simply be satisfied with the fact that our Universe just is, which means that it is its own explanation, and its own cause. We need not invoke anything further to explain it; it explains itself.
You are certainly free to believe in "god" but "god" makes no empirical, testable predictions of anything, and whether "god" has any additional "explanatory power" is a subjective conclusion. For many (such as Us), invoking "god" just describes one mystery with an even greater mystery, and it is silly to say that "god" is a "necessary being" without also conceding that the Universe and physical law are, perhaps, just "brute facts" which need no explanation beyond the fact that 2+2 = 4.