It looks like you have started an interesting blog worth following. I’m not sure William Lane Craig’s ideas deserve the kind of attention they seem to be receiving in the webosphere these days, but he does provide a useful foil against which to examine deeper questions of cosmology, morality, etc.
Dear antybu86,
I’ve been giving this objection much thought and I was hoping you might be able to evaluate my objection on logical grounds. Now, I’m not the first to develop this objection, that I believe that goes to Quentin Smith, but here is the simplified version of it.
“Whatever begins to exist” is not a solid premise because the matter in the universe does not begin to exist. According to Einstein’s theory of special relativity and the laws of energy of conservation, matter cannot be created only conserved- and in respect to SR, energy can convert to matter and vice versa.
So in principle, matter/ energy do not begin to exist in the sense Craig seems to be implying, but rather we observe chages in things. So the objection is that “things begin to exist” is not actually true.
I love the video you made on the link above! I had noticed the circular argument for the resurrection and knew a bit about the A-theory of time, but you did a brilliant job of bringing it all together to show just how contradictory things really are. Great website and video!
Weve made a video debunking the Kalam argument of William Lane Craig, our last video on the fine tuning argument was given very positive feedback from Skepchick and
featured by PZ Myers. This video features what we feel are new arguments and in depth discussion of early universe cosmology which was very positively reviewed by experts in the field.
Hope u like, we’ve got rave reviews already: http://www.youtube.com/user/skydivephil?feature=mhum
If you could spread the word we would immensely grateful, many thanks
It looks like you have started an interesting blog worth following. I’m not sure William Lane Craig’s ideas deserve the kind of attention they seem to be receiving in the webosphere these days, but he does provide a useful foil against which to examine deeper questions of cosmology, morality, etc.
Thanks.
I’ve found a few other examples of quote mining by WLC if you’re interested.
Como
Dear antybu86,
I’ve been giving this objection much thought and I was hoping you might be able to evaluate my objection on logical grounds. Now, I’m not the first to develop this objection, that I believe that goes to Quentin Smith, but here is the simplified version of it.
“Whatever begins to exist” is not a solid premise because the matter in the universe does not begin to exist. According to Einstein’s theory of special relativity and the laws of energy of conservation, matter cannot be created only conserved- and in respect to SR, energy can convert to matter and vice versa.
So in principle, matter/ energy do not begin to exist in the sense Craig seems to be implying, but rather we observe chages in things. So the objection is that “things begin to exist” is not actually true.
What do you think?
I love the video you made on the link above! I had noticed the circular argument for the resurrection and knew a bit about the A-theory of time, but you did a brilliant job of bringing it all together to show just how contradictory things really are. Great website and video!
Weve made a video debunking the Kalam argument of William Lane Craig, our last video on the fine tuning argument was given very positive feedback from Skepchick and
featured by PZ Myers. This video features what we feel are new arguments and in depth discussion of early universe cosmology which was very positively reviewed by experts in the field.
Hope u like, we’ve got rave reviews already:
http://www.youtube.com/user/skydivephil?feature=mhum
If you could spread the word we would immensely grateful, many thanks
Did you use my blog as a resource for that video?
looks like we have found the man to debate WLC – move over Dawkins, go home Grayling –
go get him boy
Have you stopped running this blog? I like it.
The level of maturity on this blog. Oh dear!