William Lane Craig: The Artful Dodger

The first premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument is that "Everything which begins to exist has a cause".

We are left wondering on what ground its proponents extend our concepts of the origin of existence of "things" to the Universe as a whole. Even if our physical realm in a larger multiverse has an origin, we get nowhere with this argument. Craig would have us believe that physical reality has some beginning, and that beginning obeys a common sense form of causality. Even in our own universe there are reasons to doubt our notions of causality.

The KCA is overly presumptuous and typical of religious arrogance. In the next WttU video, I will be discussing some of the weaknesses with jumping to conclusions about the origin of the Universe.

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[koolanator]

I was interested after seeing the screenshot from Facebook...

Same Harris > 100,000 likes

WLC < 5000 likes

[koolanator]

Nice... Beast Machines Theme ha-ha.

[ooglebydoogleby]

He criticised Dawkins and said his arguments are unsophisticated because he is not a philosopher so I have to say, for a man who basis his own arguments not on sound philosophical principles but on cherry picked scientific theories, Is he a scientist? No he isn't so his philosophical interpretations is based on theories he doesn't understand.

[LifeIsSoAwesome]

@martiandog89 Kind of embarrassing to say, but I've been liking him more and more recently. My main gripe, however, is with his argument from morality. He should just drop it, in my opinion. The unbeliever has no real reason to concede that there's an absolute morality, so the argument doesn't work from the start.

[ooglebydoogleby]

@emailpobox666 wlc is incoherent

[emailpobox666]

@ooglebydoogleby Craig admitted that talking about causality in reference to god creating the universe is incoherent. So the Cosmological argument is incoherent

[ooglebydoogleby]

If there is something that exists that did not have a cause how can WLC be sure that all things that begin to exist have a cause? If one thing can exist uncaused then why not another and another? Why not several uncaused things causing things or things coming into being without being caused? WLC says not all things that exist have a cause so why would things that begin to exist.

[StygianDysnomia]

@martiandog89 Define "it"

[HellRehab]

@martiandog89 No idea you're responding to. If you're going to scour comments from weeks or months ago and go on a spree of posting comments please consider this.