tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post5761101397709352167..comments2024-03-01T07:35:49.740-08:00Comments on Come Reason's Apologetics Notes: What the Kalam Tells Us About God's ExistenceLenny Espositohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04064209669748618955noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post-10574024186492937382016-06-22T21:21:37.379-07:002016-06-22T21:21:37.379-07:00It strikes me that non-theists have more problems ...It strikes me that non-theists have more problems when they hold to the standard model. Yes, God can have a desire to act and create that is a part of his nature and therefore eternal. There is nothing contradictory about that idea. What becomes a problem is when the First Cause is something other than a mind expressing a will. That's when the problems of space, time, and matter become more difficult to explain.Lenny Espositohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04064209669748618955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post-48177061871487666802016-06-22T18:47:00.978-07:002016-06-22T18:47:00.978-07:00I'm not sure anyone knows what "outside t...I'm not sure anyone knows what "outside time" means. Or what "spaceless" means. And if something is outside time and space how can it arrive at a "desire" to create something in time and space? Hasn't it always had that desire? If so, then can't one say that time and space has always existed as more than just a "desire?" <br /><br />And what does God create everything out of? Out of pure spiritual desire? Sounds like God creates solely and completely and directly out of God's own mind, intentions, power. So everything comes out of God and is sustained by God every instant, including time and space. Nothing exist apart from God. But then how could anything go wrong? How could a perfectly good Being even imagine evil? How could even the smallest thought of evil be batted round inside the mind of a perfectly good Being, a thought like, "Let's include evil as part of the Divine Plan." <br /><br />Or how can one squeeze the Divine simplicity and wind up with droplets of cosmic complexity? How does divine simplicity give rise to cosmic complexity? By what metaphysical miracle is that bridge crossed? It's similar to asking how evil could ever arise when you being with a perfectly good God.<br /><br />How does philosophy explain how one things gives rise to another? Does philosophy truly explain anything at all? <br /><br />The cosmos is a mystery to me, and "God" an even bigger one. Maybe complexity is how the cosmos flows and we can't say much more than that for sure? If anything is timeless, maybe there is a timeless substratum to everything, maybe time itself is an illusion per some philosophers and physicists. But what else can one say about such a timeless substratum for sure? Who knows? https://edward-t-babinski.blogspot.com/2015/06/complexity-is-how-cosmos-flows.html<br /><br /><br />Edwardtbabinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13036816926421936940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805190.post-12093854380630358452014-05-22T08:53:05.756-07:002014-05-22T08:53:05.756-07:00Hello, and thank you for this very persuasive entr...Hello, and thank you for this very persuasive entry. Do you think the objector of such statements as your last, that God chooses to act upon [no thing] is impossible, because [no thing] cannot be affected and has no potentiality, has a valid point? <br /><br />This is an objection I have encountered, and I personally think the aforementioned is subject to it. I have, however, found a way to ameliorate its force by asserting that God acts -- or actualizes His own (timeless) thoughts or intentions to create; and that He does not literally act upon [no thing]. <br /><br />Also, Dr. Craig is fond of utilizing the term "sans the universe" instead of "outside it" because the latter implies that something can exist outside space/time, which is usually objected to by naturalists, especially cosmologists (I know that is primarily a semantics issue.). <br /><br />What do you think of these concerns?<br /><br />Thank you,<br /><br />Ernest Warwick Shimbabwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08611539659836476507noreply@blogger.com