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Is God Still Around?
The Kalam Cosmological Argument, like many arguments about the present existence of God, has a fatal fallacy. The fallacy is found in the 3rd premise, that because God ‘has’ made the universe, in which case He must still exist. It seems that you do...
arguments against the existence of god, kalam cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, metaphysical necessity, necessary v. contingent existence, transcendence of god
A New Argument from Contingency
Hello Dr. Craig! In their book "Dieu, la science, les preuves", two french engineers (Michel Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies) offer an argument for the contingency of matter in 5 pages that can be summed up like this: 1- Any matter can take a wide or in...
arguments against the existence of god, leibnizian cosmological argument, necessary v. contingent existence
Earnest Questions from the Tien Shan Mountains
Dear Professor Craig, My name is Abdulla [surname redacted]. I am a student from Kyrgyzstan whose nights have been consumed for the past three years by your works — from The Tensed Theory of Time to your debate with Oppy in god and time. Today, I ...
abstract objects, divine hiddenness, evil, problem of, kalam cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, maximal greatness
A New Modal Argument from Contingency
Hello Dr. Craig! Recently, Alexander Pruss and Joshua Rasmussen have developed a fascinating, cutting-edge argument called the Modal Argument from Beginnings, or MAB. It seeks to reach the same conclusion of the classic argument from contingency you defend usi...
arguments for the existence of god, causation, leibnizian cosmological argument, modal argument from beginnings, ontological argument
Is God’s Existence a “Brute Fact”?
This question is about the concept of a necessary being. I'm not sure how a concrete being can be self-explanatory. How is it any different from a brute fact? You can posit that an eternal God explains all of reality, but the question still arises: "why do...
abstract objects, leibnizian cosmological argument, metaphysical necessity, necessary beings
Are Quantum Fields the Metaphysically Necessary Ground of Being?
Dr. Craig, Hope this email finds you well. I had submitted an earlier question, but it occurred to me that I could arrive at my same issue more concisely -- so here I am. Elsewhere you've maintained that some part of the universe couldn't be a necess...
field theory, kalam cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, metaphysical necessity, necessary beings, necessary v. contingent existence
Is the World a Brute Contingent?
In your dialogue with Dr. Graham Oppy, he brought up an interesting concern to which you did not have time to adequately respond to. I will reproduce his question here. Dr. Oppy: "Could God have freely chosen to make a physical world in which it was not the ...
agent causation, atheism, divine will, explanatory power, leibnizian cosmological argument, mathematics, applicability of
It’s Hard to Believe
Hello Dr.Craig I just finished reading question 647, and I do have to say as an atheist/agnostic I must admit you dismantled the argument proposed in that writers question thoroughly and rather beautifully. This is a argument I pondered myself and thought to ...
arguments against the existence of god, arguments for the existence of god, belief in god, divinity of jesus, epistemology, historical evidences
Where Are All the Christian Philosophers?
Hello Dr. Craig, thank you for your work. On numerous occasions you've argued that we are currently experiencing a renaissance in fields like Philosophy with respect to the intellectual credibility of belief in God and Christianity in particular. You'v...
arguments for the existence of god, christian philosophy, fine tuning argument, kalam cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, moral argument
Theistic Arguments and Marxist Dialectical Materialism
Dear Dr. Craig! I have a question for you about the cosmological argument of Leibniz. I am interested in the rationality of the second premise of this argument, although this may seem very strange to you. I am not sure in validity of this premise (not in its t...
cosmological argument, gottfried wilhelm leibniz, kalam cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, marxism, materialism
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Is God Still Around?
The Kalam Cosmological Argument, like many arguments about the present existence of God, has a fatal fallacy. The fallacy is found in the 3rd premise, that because God ‘has’ made the universe, in which case He must still exist. It seems that you do...
arguments against the existence of god, kalam cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, metaphysical necessity, necessary v. contingent existence, transcendence of god
A New Argument from Contingency
Hello Dr. Craig! In their book "Dieu, la science, les preuves", two french engineers (Michel Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies) offer an argument for the contingency of matter in 5 pages that can be summed up like this: 1- Any matter can take a wide or in...
arguments against the existence of god, leibnizian cosmological argument, necessary v. contingent existence
Earnest Questions from the Tien Shan Mountains
Dear Professor Craig, My name is Abdulla [surname redacted]. I am a student from Kyrgyzstan whose nights have been consumed for the past three years by your works — from The Tensed Theory of Time to your debate with Oppy in god and time. Today, I ...
abstract objects, divine hiddenness, evil, problem of, kalam cosmological argument, leibnizian cosmological argument, maximal greatness
A New Modal Argument from Contingency
Hello Dr. Craig! Recently, Alexander Pruss and Joshua Rasmussen have developed a fascinating, cutting-edge argument called the Modal Argument from Beginnings, or MAB. It seeks to reach the same conclusion of the classic argument from contingency you defend usi...
arguments for the existence of god, causation, leibnizian cosmological argument, modal argument from beginnings, ontological argument
Is God’s Existence a “Brute Fact”?
This question is about the concept of a necessary being. I'm not sure how a concrete being can be self-explanatory. How is it any different from a brute fact? You can posit that an eternal God explains all of reality, but the question still arises: "why do...
abstract objects, leibnizian cosmological argument, metaphysical necessity, necessary beings