Showing posts with label Argument from First Cause. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Argument from First Cause. Show all posts
Letters To The Editor
This blogger has a history of writing Letters to the Editor since college (decades ago!! LOL). They are an easy (especially now with email), quick and usually quite effective way of getting your opinion "out there" for discussion.
Happy Birthday, Carl
PZ Myers celebrates the birthday of Carl Sagan here. What a force for reason. He certainly is missed.
In this blogger's opinion, he essentially buries the Cosmological Argument for a god in this video.
In this blogger's opinion, he essentially buries the Cosmological Argument for a god in this video.
Is This The Best Theists Have?
Mano Singham has posted on the Cosmological (First Cause) argument for god (can you say, "one more time!!!!"). Will theists EVER give this argument up? Probably not.
The First Cause Argument
According to Wikipedia, the cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of a First Cause (or instead, an Uncaused cause) to the universe, and by extension is often used as an argument for the existence of an "unconditioned" or "supreme" being, usually then identified as God.
Theists argue that the Big Bang was the beginning of space, time, energy and matter. Since there was "nothing" prior to this event, it must have been caused by this "First Cause"/"Uncaused Cause".
It is the opinion of this blogger that this is essentially an unsupported assertion. Since physics presently is unable to clearly present a falsifiable hypothesis regarding what "caused" the Big Bang and our universe, the most rational stance to take seems to be "presently, we do not know".
However, science has presented us with some reasonable possibilities that perhaps will rise to a testable hypothesis regarding the origin of our universe. Cosmology, physics and mathematics are looking within quantum mechanics for answers, as there is some evidence that our universe, indeed, came from "nothing". M-Theory, which this blogger recently posted about, is a strong candidate presently for the elusive "Theory of Everything".
Since our universe began from simple foundations and gradually became more complex, is seems reasonable to use Occam's Razor to suggest that the "cause" of our universe was a simple unintelligent agency rather that a complicated diety. This is consistent with the observation that there is no true evidence for a god.
Wes Morrison has published a 14-page paper analyzing the Kalam Cosmological Argument as proposed by William Lane Craig.
Theists argue that the Big Bang was the beginning of space, time, energy and matter. Since there was "nothing" prior to this event, it must have been caused by this "First Cause"/"Uncaused Cause".
It is the opinion of this blogger that this is essentially an unsupported assertion. Since physics presently is unable to clearly present a falsifiable hypothesis regarding what "caused" the Big Bang and our universe, the most rational stance to take seems to be "presently, we do not know".
However, science has presented us with some reasonable possibilities that perhaps will rise to a testable hypothesis regarding the origin of our universe. Cosmology, physics and mathematics are looking within quantum mechanics for answers, as there is some evidence that our universe, indeed, came from "nothing". M-Theory, which this blogger recently posted about, is a strong candidate presently for the elusive "Theory of Everything".
Since our universe began from simple foundations and gradually became more complex, is seems reasonable to use Occam's Razor to suggest that the "cause" of our universe was a simple unintelligent agency rather that a complicated diety. This is consistent with the observation that there is no true evidence for a god.
Wes Morrison has published a 14-page paper analyzing the Kalam Cosmological Argument as proposed by William Lane Craig.
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