“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...
“Help, help the sky is falling! Help, help the sky is falling! I have to tell the King!” squawks Chicken Little in the opening of the popular children’s folktale. A mysterious object had just hit chicken little in the head, but when he looked up he didn’t see...
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...
Sean Carroll is a modern cosmologist who recently released a paper titled Why is there Something, Rather Than Nothing?[1]. Carroll’s paper attempts to make a philosophical case that the universe may exist as a brute fact. The opening paragraph of his paper states this...