Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Nothing-of-the-gaps

William Lane Craig has a youtube commentary on Hawking's new book. And some of the comments left by viewers are memorable in their own right:

coffinperson

Atheism – The belief that there was nothing and then nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything.

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It's the "nothing of the gaps" argument. Nothingdidit.

http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments=1&v=55UgLEKbz2s

2 comments:

  1. If nothing is the alternative then I've made up my mind. This universe was created by God.

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  2. There had to be an eternal presence of something.
    Was it a rock, a gas, a single molecule?

    I had an atheist answer my question of where did all this come from by saying, "We will know one day soon. It may take another hundred years, but it will happen, just like evolution has all the evidence it has." Paraphrased.

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