Oddbean new post about login | logout Whatever begins to exist has a cause for its existence. The universe began to exist (supposedly debatable). Therefore, the universe has a cause for its existence. For me, God is best expressed as a verb. God was. God is. God will.
I don’t think so because sucking satans cock as a Christian nation killing people makes god kinda a hollow point blowing up Berliners.
I’m afraid that fictional character to blame atrocities on is not really holding up. https://i.nostrimg.com/5235881ad70c10309fb4bd18371b622096b3ec3ab6f4bf6d22033a3298efebae/file.jpeg
This is a man’s world, Tony ™️ https://i.nostrimg.com/1d82c35f0b92dfc9a6faee995a836b8f24adfdb7cb9cd462c95533c051abc2de/file.jpeg
How do I turn the mainvolume down though
🗝️ Uncertain whether possible without a knob or a fader to keep control over the noise. 🎚️ https://i.nostrimg.com/70d7fd73fced4188097385762f1353f8bd4b829237b624a4f8f28e7db9a1086e/file.jpeg
The problem (for me) with the Kalam Cosmological argument and other similarly ‘formal logic’ style arguments, is that you end up in metaphysics pretty quickly, arguing over definitions of words like ‘exist’ or ‘cause’. I prefer the Moral argument, or the Finely Tuned Universe. Christopher Hitchens apparently privately admitted that the one argument which most threatened to derail his atheism, was the Fine Tuning one.
The fine-tuning argument is derailed by the multiverse: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10701-023-00732-8
