Category Archive: cosmology

Jun 01 2012

20 Questions

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archaeology, atheism, cosmology, languages, mind, morality, naturalism, science

Are there “20 Questions Atheists Struggle to Answer” ? I was asked how I respond to Peter Saunders’ claim that there are, and how I would respond to those questions. According to God’s Advocate, Saunders thinks “there have not been any decent responses to [these twenty questions] in the past 40yrs,” but evidently he isn’t …

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Mar 07 2012

Ex Nihilo Onus Merdae Fit

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atheism, cosmology, metaphysics, naturalism, ontology, philosophy, physics

by Richard Carrier

A common argument against atheism is that the Big Bang proves everything had a beginning (it does not in fact prove that, but bear with me here), therefore there was once nothing, and ex nihilo nihil fit, “from nothing, comes nothing.” However, that latter premise is demonstrably false. And that spells death for theism and …