Leading Cosmologist George F.R. Ellis on Cosmology, Multiverses, Fine-Tuning and God

Here one of my favourite Cosmologists, and a quite well known, George Ellis talks about Cosmology, Multiverse hypothesis, the Fine-Tuning of the Universe for life and God. I Admire him.

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Science & Technology

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• Cosmology
• fine-tuning
• multiverse
• anthropic
• principle
• physics
• God
• Robin
• Collins
• George
• FR
• Ellis
• Fine-tuning
• argument
• John
• Polkinghorne

[TheCartesianTheist]

Most interesting TT. I had not seen this before.

[TheisticThinker]

@TheCartesianTheist Thank you CT! Btw, I'm working right now on a in-depth video on the Kalam, defending it and looking into objections here by some people, I will release it as soon as possible; Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, soon atleast. But as a video I'm hoping it will stir some nice dialouge on the argument, being a very in-depth video (50 minutes long so far! (May have to divide it into parts though))

[TheCartesianTheist]

@TheisticThinker

Sounds great. Do you already have a bit on the criticism that the Kalam commits the fallacy of composition since I think that criticism is becomming more popular of late and it would be good to answer it.

[TheisticThinker]

@TheCartesianTheist Hm, not yet. The structure of the video is this (Table of Content),

1. Background and History of the argument 2. The Premises and the Conclusion 2.1 Whatever begins to exist has a cause 2.1.1 Ex nihil, nihil fit (I make an argument here for the truth of this premise which I will see how people will react too) 2.2 The Universe began to exist. 2.2.1. In-Depth Discussion on Cosmology (Quite much time has been spent on this part, since many object to this)

[TheisticThinker]

@TheCartesianTheist (Cont.)

2.3 Conclusion: Therefore the Universe has a Cause of its existence.

3. Objections:

I'm working on objections right now. I've started answering recent claims by Dhorpatan on the BVG-theorem as he has responded to me about that. Then I will look into antybu86's objections in one video mostly concerning premise 2 and cosmology. Then after that I may look into the Fallacy of Composition; Do you have any video on that where someone uses that objection?

[TheisticThinker]

@TheCartesianTheist That would be interesting to look in to. :)

[devilslayer2011]

The wisdom of the world is foolishness with God...thats all I think when I see these "intellectuals" or philosophers or philosophical scientists...they know nothing...just nothing but theories.

[TheisticThinker]

@MegaExelo Haha oh, almost the same for me. Sometimes I want to discuss the existence of God in a friendly manner, but I don't want it to become a heated or 'angry' debate. x)

[MegaExelo]

@TheisticThinker

lol, like 90% of my school is christian, but my own group of friends does not contain 1 christian. Most of them are agnostics or agnostic who lean towards atheism or deism. I am the only theist there. However, almost all of them are incredibly passive (on their beliefs, they really couldn't care less), and i haven't really gotten into any big debates with any of them (except one).

[TheisticThinker]

@MegaExelo Agreeed. The majority of my friends are Atheists, (Maybe because I live in Swewden) and they are very kind etc. It may be a different story with many here on Youtube but it's really wrong to say that therefore Atheists deserve no intellectual respect.