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[mannjess]

Awesome video. However, you claim toward the end that if the physical laws of an early universe were the same, we would expect the same universe to develop. This is not true. Different material or a different setting would both cause different interactions, which would create a largely different universe. This is comparable to, say, computer science; A given set of computer instructions won't ensure the same set of events. Different data will result in different behavior.

[DasAmericanAtheist]

@mannjess That's not quite what I claim. I say that a universe with the same physical laws would essentially be the same universe. Surely there would be a different series of events, but the physical laws would determine the goings on within that universe.

[seflersinsburg10]

@DasAmericanAtheist: I love your ideas, but your equivocation of caused actions and a lack of free will is incorrect. I was introduced to the idea that determinism and free will are compatible (called compatibilism) by a book called "Sense and Goodness Without God." I've also heard that "Elbow Room" by Daniel Dennett is a good argument in favor of this position. Please read one of these.

[DasAmericanAtheist]

@seflersinsburg10 No, I agree with you. But that is not freewill in the sense that theists use it within this argument. To them it is "libertarian freewill."

I like Dennett's idea and i agree with it, but within Kalam, that's not how the wprd is used.

[WolfEyesatNight]

in another universe, atheists are Christians and Christians are atheist.

[Hyardacil]

....or you could simply ask: Why is there God instead of no God?

[teenaznpussy]

There could not be a god if there is only nothing. I have come to believe that nothingness is un-attainable, and the closest substances we find to nothingness we gaze upon in awe.

The logic is indeed self defeating but not pointless.

I think it simply points out the limitation of the human mind and imagination.

I certainly don't have an answer for "why."

Better yet, instead of asking "Why is there existance instead of nothing?" you could ask, does "Nothing" even exist?

[Evilanious]

At some point you state that the only spaceless and timeless things are disembodied souls and abstract ideas. How do you know? How do you know there isnt more?

[GronTheMighty]

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[ByteSmasher]

Kalam's argument -- bare assertions all around!

[TheEphemerae]

Good video, I just had one question though.

How does the fact that god had a choice in which universe to create, entail that there are other universes?

Couldn't it be possible to have created this actual universe out of a list of hypothetical universes?

[ASR990]

Great video! I don't really have anything to add to your plea, except for a reply to your last words, in which you say not to have found an awnser to the question of why. I myself have always thought that the question of why is a stupid one, since its build on the assumption that there is a reason as to why the universe exists. This very question excludes the possibility that there may be no reason at all, as i tend to think.

[shlockofgod]

@theDracoIX You're an asshole.