“If everything requires a cause, what caused God? Ha! Gotcha!” This is just one of many common objections to arguments that no one ever gave. The reason no respectable theist ever gave this particular argument (i.e. everything has a cause of its existence, therefore...
Principle of Causality
Rebuttal of Carroll’s Brute Fact Hypothesis, Part 2
This is part 2 in this series of posts rebutting Sean Carrol’s recent paper titled Why is there Something, Rather Than Nothing?. In part 1 we were introduced to Sean Carroll, a cosmologist who wrote a philosophy paper arguing that the universe can exist as a brute...