Defense of the Kalam Argument, and the Cosmic Fine Tuning Argument. Co-author with William Lane Craig, Fr. Robert Spitzer, volunteer with Reasons-To-Believe.
Mar 31, 2023 • 55 tweets • 8 min read
A brief discussion with Google Bard on the Kalam Argument:
Me: “Critique the modern Kalam argument as it relates to modern cosmology.”
Bard: “The Kalam argument is a cosmological argument for the existence of God. It states that everything that begins to exist has a cause, and the universe began to exist, therefore the universe has a cause. The cause of the universe, the argument concludes, is God. …..
Sep 3, 2021 • 78 tweets • 11 min read
Victor Reppert's 7 versions of the Argument from Reason:
Argument from Intentionality:
Premise 1] If naturalism is true, then there is no fact of the matter as to what someone's thought or statement is about.
Premise 2] But there are facts about what someone's thought is about. (Implied by the existence of rational inference.)
Jun 17, 2019 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Dad joke on Father's Day: Why should you avoid a romantic relationship with a tennis player?
Because love means nothing to them.
Dad science joke on Father's Day: Why should you avoid putting a photon in charge of your schedule?
Because time means nothing to them.
Feb 16, 2019 • 148 tweets • 29 min read
In 2014, Bill Craig invited me and Robin Collins (he of the Cosmic Design Fine-Tuning argument) to be part of a debate team. The location was the Greer-Heard point-counterpoint forum at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Our opponents were one of the foremost cosmologists, Sean Carroll, one of the foremost philosophers of time, Tim Maudlin, and one of the foremost philosophers of religion Alex Rosenberg. This was quite something! I had been to Greer-Heard in 2007, when Bill was . . .
Aug 31, 2018 • 76 tweets • 13 min read
This resource is a good popular level of William Lane Craig's defense regarding the philosophy of time. Why is this important? Because, (putting on my Feynman hat), the philosophy of time is the best place to attack Kalam.
Roger Penrose is a candidate for greatest living cosmologist. We need to take what he says seriously. What motivates the CCC cosmology? Penrose is an advocate of the "past hypothesis". A good source that describes its motivation is Sean Carroll's book: amazon.com/dp/B002VXTAZ0/…
