Answer Honestly. This isn't a debate.
1. Why is there something rather than nothing?
2. What evidence (if any) do you find most persuasive regarding Theism?
3. How do you reconcile your atheism with any ultimate meaning in life?
4. Were you raised in a religious environment?
5. What is the end-all goal of atheism activism on YouTube?
Defending ID. Actually...just clarifying some mistakes.
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When I said Von Sternburg was fired, I spoke too quickly. He was pressured to resign and did so on account of the hostility in his working enviornment.
Dr. J.P. Moreland at a lecture I attended a couple years ago. He is discussing why the culture views anyone who raises their religion above that of a hobby is a danger to modern society.
Props to ThatChristian for the Opening Pic.
P1.Whatever begins to exist has a cause
P2. The universe began to exist
1. The Impossibility of An Actually Infinite Number of Things
2. The Impossibility of Traversing the Infinite
3. The Expansion of the Universe
4. The Thermodynamic Properties of the Universe.
C1. Therefore, the universe has a cause.
P1. The fine-tuning of the universe is due to either physical necessity, chance, or design.
P2. It is not due to physical necessity or chance.
C. Therefore, it is due to design.
Sources: John Leslie, John Barrow, Frank Tippler, William Dembski, William lane Craig, Alvin Plantinga, P.C.W. Davies
The Leibnizian Argument
1.Any thing that exists has an explanation of its existence, either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause.
2.If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God.
3.The universe exists.
4.Therefore the explanation of the existence of the universe is God.
