Reading Time: < 1 minute This is something I have been meaning to do for a long time. Phil Halper, with his superb skydivephil channel, has produced some brilliant videos over time critiquing the Kalam, William Lane Craig, theistic cosmology, animal suffering arguments and all sorts, whilst also producing some of the best, most in-depth documentaries on cosmology. He has […]
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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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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 […]
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Defending the Kalam with the B-Theory of Time
Reading Time: 3 minutes This second video below looks to show, whilst taking the view that the A-Theory of time as being inconsistent with science and therefore the Kalam, that the B-Theory of time can be used to defend the Kalam. For those of you not aware of the two theories of time: William Lane Craig, as pretty much […]
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Kalam Cosmological Argument: Causality and a Circular Argument
Reading Time: 8 minutes As some of you will know, my most recent book was on the Kalam Cosmological Argument, the cosmological argument that deals with the beginning of the universe, concluding in favour of it having a cause (i.e. God). the argument is favoured by apologists the world over. It has obsessed me for years to the point […]
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Revisiting the Kalam Cosmological Argument (3 of 3)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Let’s revisit the popular Christian apologetic, the Kalam argument, by investigating rebuttals to 11 objections. See if they’re effective, and see how much of my original argument remains. (3 of 3)
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Revisiting the Kalam Cosmological Argument (2 of 3)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Let’s revisit the popular Christian apologetic, the Kalam argument, by investigating rebuttals to 11 objections. See if they’re effective, and see how much of my original argument remains. (2 of 3)
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Libertarian Free Will Defeats the Kalam Cosmological Argument (#2)
Reading Time: 7 minutes When originally posted this some years back, I had a comment to answer on the original blog post, now here at Libertarian Free Will Defeats the Kalam Cosmological Argument. I did not want to lose all the work to a comment forgotten in the annals of blog history. So here is the original post almost in full to […]
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The Handbook: Apologetics: Pascal, Ontological, Cosmological
Reading Time: 7 minutes Some of these arguments rise to the level of apologetics classics. Others are painfully cringeworthy modern inventions that could only exist in a Christian population that is vastly deteriorated from loftier standards. I’ll show you three of those arguments today–and how you’re likely to encounter them in the wild, so to speak!