Reading Time: 2 minutes Apologies for my absence – half term, and kids, and all that. Dr Richard Carrier was very generous indeed with his time and effort on my recent book The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK]. I was very much indebted to him for his extensive blog entry on the piece. Within that article […]
Did God Create the Universe from Nothing?
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Did God Create the Universe from Nothing?
Reading Time: 7 minutes This was the question I sought to answer in my book of the same name, with the subtitle of Countering William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument [UK]. I often think this is my best book. It’s tight, aimed at just the right level and audience in a successful manner (in terms of writing for an audience), […]
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Causality and Kalam
Reading Time: 4 minutes A YouTuber commenter hit me with this comment the other day in the context of me having written a book on the Kalam Cosmological Argument (Did God Create a Universe from Nothing) [UK]. Here is his comment, with my reactions interlinearly: The central thesis of your book against the Kalam, it seems to me, is […]
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Kalam Underwritten by Science?
Reading Time: 3 minutes I wrote a, what I obviously think is fantastic, book on the Kalam Cosmological Argument a few years back. The sort of reviews I have enjoyed getting go something like this: 5.0 out of 5 stars William Lane Craig really should read this book before he says anything else . . . Reviewed in the […]
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Kalam and Free Will
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s a video for you based on an argument in my book Did God Create the Universe from Nothing? (UK) and about which I have written several times before: Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher You can also buy me a cuppa. Or buy some of my awesome ATP merchandise! […]
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Libertarian Free Will and the Kalam, Revisited
Reading Time: 2 minutes It seems that internet friends and atheist You Tube sensations CosmicSkeptic and Rationality Rules have either read my book at some point or are just hitting a rich vein of Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA) criticism by mutual awesomeness. I recently posted about my thoughts concerning CosmicSkeptic’s debate with William Lane Craig and you can see […]
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Dekonstructing the Kalam: CosmicSkeptic, William Lane Craig & Conceptual Nominalism
Reading Time: < 1 minute In my first video in this series on the Kalam as pertaining to leading light of internet atheism, CosmicSkeptic, I looked at running a commentary that hoped to highlight the need for clarity in many of the points that Alex O’Connor made in a vide debunking his former self. In the second video, I have […]
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The Kalamity of the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Reading Time: 2 minutes Towards the end of my book on the Kalam Cosmological Argument (Did God Create the Universe from Nothing?: Countering William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument [UK]), I set out to succinctly list the issues I find in the three-line syllogism: Let me, for ease of reference, lay out my main points of the book so far […]
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William Lane Craig vs Alex O’Connor on the Kalam
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alex O’Connor is a bit of a star in the atheist world right now, with a huge internet following, getting invited to conferences and getting huge names to discussions, from Richard Dawkins to, now, William Lane Craig. So here he is talking to William Lane Craig. And I am sure as hell O’Connor has read […]
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Did God Create the Universe from Nothing?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Short answer, probably not. Long answer, read my book Did God Create the Universe from Nothing?: Countering William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument and whilst you’re at it, please post a nice review or two on Amazon to counter those typical Christian reviews that give 1 star whilst not offering any substantive critique… Grrr. Happy to have […]