WOTMQ: Kalam Destroys Christian Theology
I've been wanting to make this video for a while now, but kept getting distracted. For those of you who don't know, "The Kalam Cosmological Argument" is THE big argument Christians use in their various debates regarding the existence of God. And because there so much nonsense to deal with in the argument itself, I don't think I've ever heard anyone point out that there's a part of the argument, as offered publicly and frequently by people like William Lane Craig, which completely undermines Christian theology. So I say, let them have it. And I do.
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You could also mention that if everything that starts to exist has a beginning that this God they worship must also have a beginning. So then we get the wonderful "Who Made Who" question so knowingly posited by those wise sages AC/DC.
BTW, I've always found hilarious that theologian/philosopher Wm. Lane Craig would step into the ring to debate cosmology with (wait for it!) a *cosmologist*! Carroll did a great job.
Did you mean to include a link to the Sean Carroll/WLC debate on cosmology? I think it's here: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/02/27/godcosmology-debate-videos/.
1:20 - Culture Club reference :-)
"Whatever begins to exist has a cause of its beginning." Says who? Derp. Define "cause," Billy. He thinks it's… Yahweh? Not Hunaman? Or Tláloc? Osiris? Gucumatz? Ostara? Odin? Krishna? Allah? Elohim? I gag with the "declarative" pronouncements that supposedly bolster Christian belief. We might as well be debating how many angels fit on the head of a pin, or whether his god has a navel.
Re the "wages of sin are death." There is a common and incorrect assumption that Adam and Eve, had they not disobeyed Yahweh, would have lived forever but since they disobey Yahweh, ended up dying. This is unfortunately untrue, as indicated by the scripture itself. Most people believe A & E were evicted from the garden because of their disobedience. This is not so, according to Yahweh himself. Yahweh says to the folks offstage that A & E have to go "lest they also eat from the tree of Life and, like us, live forever. Why would he worry about immortal beings becoming immortal? There are more holes in this story that a full wheel of Swiss cheese, so it doesn't help when people make shit up. It seems that every Christian has their own personal God . . . who agrees with everything they think and say making it one god per Christian. (Voice over of Carl Sagan . . . ."Billions and billions of Jesuses (Jesi?).")
I like what they did on American Gods. (Closest/best clip I could find without digging too deep): https://youtu.be/grTH-hf_0rA
Such a fan of William Lane Craig! Watching and listening to his intellectual/rhetorical mastery is proof that God exists and allows the highly intelligent to act as a sphincter in the place where excrement exits. He does spew some rather entertaining and amazing bullshit!