Ep #72 - What Counting Down from INFINITY Tells us About the BEGINNING of the UNIVERSE!

10/16/22 • 26 min

If you start to count up from 0 to the largest number will you ever finish counting? It would take literally forever! How about starting to count down from the largest number all the way down to 0? Is it even possible to start, let alone asking how long it would take?! This impossibility faces anyone who says the universe never began to exist or has always existed. Join us to learn more about this simplified philosophical argument for why the universe must have had a beginning.
Chapter markers:
0:00- Intro
0:47- What have we covered so far?
01:57- Premise 2
02:30- What is the philosophical argument for Premise 2
04:54- What is infinite regression?
07:48- How long will it take for today to arrive?
08:11- Example to highlight how we can/can't count
11:22- Where do start counting then?
14:26- The book borrowing example
25:00- Outro
Links and citation:

Craig, William Lane. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
Flew, A., & Varghese, R. A., There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
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Craig, William Lane. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
Flew, A., & Varghese, R. A., There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
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Ep #71 - What Does A SHEEP, Its MOTHER & The HERD Have To Do With The Big Bang Theory?!

Just because a sheep has a mother it doesn't mean that the herd (collection of sheeps) would have a mother too. So likewise, just because the things within the universe have a cause/creator it doesn't mean that the universe (collection of all things) has a Cause/Creator. Is that a solid objection? Nope, not really (well the sheep and the herd both have a shepherd so....). Join us as we close down on the defense of part one of the argument for God from the universe's existence.
Links and citation:

Dennett, Daniel; Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (New York: Viking, 2006), 242
Craig, William Lane; Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
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Ep #73 - The GOD Who STRETCHED the Universe into Place!

One of the biggest scientific discovery of recent past that shook atheist scientists was the expansion of the universe. An unchallenged field of scientific knowledge is that the universe is running out of the limited energy we have. What do these mean for the Christian? It means the evidence for a Creator is overwhelming! Tune in to know more.

Links and citation:

Craig, William Lane. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
John A. Wheeler, “Beyond the Hole,” in Some Strangeness in the Proportion, ed. Harry Woolf (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1980), 354
Vibert Douglas, “Forty Minutes with Einstein,” Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 50 (June 1956): 100
Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, The Nature of Space and Time, The Isaac Newton Institute Series of Lectures (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1996), 20
A. Borde and A. Vilenkin, “Eternal Inflation and the Initial Singularity,” Physical Review Letters 72 (1994): 3305, 3307
Hawking, Brief History of Time, 138–39
Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One, 176.
Paul Davies, “The Big Bang—and Before,” The Thomas Aquinas College Lecture Series, Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, Calif., March 2002
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