THE256L Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: William Lane Craig, Big Bang, Avicenna
8 Nov 2018
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Bold notes - are the notes from the powerpoint. Highlighted terms - are key terms to know. Notes with - in front are my notes beyond what is on the screen. Two possible answers: nothing came first, then something came from nothing! Can articulate with and without time: whenever this idea is explained, the nothing" is something". There is always a cause to the cause of nothing -> something. Articulate something that causes the poof when someone tries to explain. Argument tries to set up a sequence of thought that results in the conclusion that the theistic view offers a better explanation than atheistic views: contradicts the principle of causality - crucial to science. Giving up on this principle doesn"t make sense. Ex. my pain is caused by being punched or not: something has always existed. 2 possible answers: something material - eg. , the material universe (material universe has always existed, scientific arguments against: (1) big bang cosmology.
