- Apr 28, 2011
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Hi everyone.
Recently, my 14 year old sister decided to respond to an atheist on YouTube named TheoreticalBS. She responded to two of his videos which you can watch here:
She made this video in response: http://www.youtube.c...?v=qIGxmChm-eo. I thought it was pretty good, but I didn't think that it was clear enough and I thought she went off on a few different topics, so I made a followup video with her. You can watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhMwZPBj4Mw
Anyway, the point of this thread is just to ask you guys what you think about our arguments. Both of us would like some constructive criticism.
We do agree that TBS has given some good criticisms of the Kalam Cosmological argument, but the main point that we disagree with him on is his claim that Creatio ex nihilo is logically impossible.
His basis for claiming this seems to be that it does not fit with the model of causality that he has given. The problem with this is that any model of causality must rely upon physical observation of causes and effects and thus the model is inductive. Conclusions using inductive reasoning are fallacious and to show that something is logically impossible, you must use deductive reasoning.
What do you guys think?
Well the first two links aren't showing on my computer. If you don't see them either, the links are:
watch?v=fRn-mVPIl60
watch?v=4IGlgYExLOo
Recently, my 14 year old sister decided to respond to an atheist on YouTube named TheoreticalBS. She responded to two of his videos which you can watch here:
She made this video in response: http://www.youtube.c...?v=qIGxmChm-eo. I thought it was pretty good, but I didn't think that it was clear enough and I thought she went off on a few different topics, so I made a followup video with her. You can watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhMwZPBj4Mw
Anyway, the point of this thread is just to ask you guys what you think about our arguments. Both of us would like some constructive criticism.
We do agree that TBS has given some good criticisms of the Kalam Cosmological argument, but the main point that we disagree with him on is his claim that Creatio ex nihilo is logically impossible.
His basis for claiming this seems to be that it does not fit with the model of causality that he has given. The problem with this is that any model of causality must rely upon physical observation of causes and effects and thus the model is inductive. Conclusions using inductive reasoning are fallacious and to show that something is logically impossible, you must use deductive reasoning.
What do you guys think?
Well the first two links aren't showing on my computer. If you don't see them either, the links are:
watch?v=fRn-mVPIl60
watch?v=4IGlgYExLOo