Reading Time: < 1 minute I am running a series of the old podcast segments from my Pearced Off! section of the Skepticule Podcast (a British skepticism-based podcast now on hiatus) that I used to contribute to. Some of the earlier ones have some quieter audio. Apologies. They run at around ten minutes. Something to keep you company outside of Netflix and the […]
Kalam Cosmological Argument
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Free Will & the Kalam: Causes & Reasons
Reading Time: 5 minutes I recently posted on the Kalam Cosmological Argument and how it isn’t compatible with libertarian free will. Luke Breuer took issues with what I said, transcribing my video (now in italic) in his comment: Jonathan, you seem to be conflating causes and reasons: But basically someone who is a determinist or adequate determinist, given the sort of quantum […]
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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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An Immaterial Mind Causing the Universe
Reading Time: 4 minutes The other day, I was sent an argument by a commenter on my video discussing the Kalam Cosmological Argument. For the full details of his arguments, please see my post here. William Lane Craig uses an extension to his Kalam Cosmological Argument to conclude that this an immaterial mind, qua God, is necessary to explain […]
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Criticising Craig’s Personal Mind As Causing the Universe
Reading Time: 4 minutes Here is an argument that a commenter on one of my recent YouTube videos on the Kalam Cosmological Argument gave me. It’s actually something I have argued elsewhere (possibly even mentioning in that Kalam series itself). Before I hand over to him, let me remind you of the KCA: Whatever begins to exist has a […]
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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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Sean McDowell’s First Big Resurrection Answer Is Hilariously Inept
Reading Time: 8 minutes For Easter, Sean McDowell created a video about the Resurrection. In it, he claimed that the Resurrection answered three very important questions. Today, let’s tackle the first of Sean McDowell’s questions and see how well he answered it!