Reading Time: 3 minutes Cosmological theories are often at odds with traditional Christian or theistic views. Although the Catholic Church has accepted the Big Bang theory for the beginning of the universe, this is not a universal Christian belief, and further nuanced theorizing pertaining to our cosmology is often met with more resistance. But one idea could show that […]
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Understanding eternity (Hint: It’s a very long time)
Reading Time: 2 minutes OnlySky · Understanding eternity (Hint: It’s a very long time) Whether you are a heaven-and-hell-believing evangelical or a Christian universalist (where everyone gets saved), you’ll have some kind of belief in a transcendent soul living in some situation for eternity. But eternity is a very long time. Problematically so. People often seem to defend billionaires […]
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Obliterating the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Reading Time: 4 minutes I love me a bit of the Kalam. Well, more accurately, a bit of criticism of the Kalam. What am I talking about? What is this Kalam? Well, the Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA) is a short, three-lined syllogism that supposedly shows that the universe required a cause for its existence, and with some mental gerrymandering, […]
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Debunking CosmicSkeptic Debunking Himself Debunking the Kalam. A Rebunking? Or Something…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Okay, this isn’t so much a debunking as a conversation or a use of Alex O’Connor’s (CosmicSkeptic) recent video as a stimulus for discussion. It’s a commentary of sorts. I’ve got a lot of time for O’Connor: his videos are excellent and he rightfully has a big following because he produces quality content with finesse […]
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Before the Big Bang: A Multiverse from “Nothing”
Reading Time: < 1 minute Skydivephil and his team have just released a new cosmology film in their Before the Big Bang Series. In previous episodes of the series they have interviewed such names as Stephen Hawking, Sir Roger Penrose, Alan Guth and many others. In this episode, we interview Alex Vilenkin. Vilenkin was the first to propose the universe […]
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Infinity and God
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is an excerpt from James A. Lindsay’s book Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly committed to video by James and myself. The book looks at ideas of infinity and whether mathematics is conceptual and a human construction to help us navigate reality. William Lane Craig’s ideas about God’s infinity come in for some sound […]
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To Infinity and Beyond
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mad scientist Luna, Eleanor the narwhal, and Blinky the bat relax in a field for a bit and quietly ponder the concept of infinity.
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Abiogenesis Wars: Fine-Tuning and Complexity
Reading Time: 7 minutes There’s a pretty heated stand off between Smilodon’s Retreat (SR) and Jim Dailey (JD) over on this thread here. The crux of the argument seems to be about how difficult it is for the believer to swallow the notion that something like life, and the complexity it requires for spontaneous lift-off, couldn’t possibly start on […]
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The Slipperiest Theological Slope – James A. Lindsay Responds on God and infinity
Reading Time: 9 minutes The other day, I posted a reivew by a Christian to James A. Lindsay’s book Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly. James has kindly taken time to respond to the claims made. It now follows. The Slipperiest Theological Slope Theology is a peculiar artform. It posits itself as an intellectual investigation of the […]
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“Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly” Great Christian Review, Admits God Cannot Be Infinite!
Reading Time: 7 minutes A few years back, I edited and published, through my skeptical imprint Onus Books the fantastic book on maths, infinity and God entitled Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly. James A. Lindsay has gone on to write a book for Pitchstone that has just been released, called Everybody Is Wrong About God, which is an equally […]