tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6802109362344250457.post7602575328762879202..comments2023-10-25T10:45:54.660-05:00Comments on Answers in Genesis BUSTED!: The Kalam Argument is a DeepityAIGBustedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03232781356086767207noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6802109362344250457.post-24949977685709041012011-07-19T17:10:19.970-05:002011-07-19T17:10:19.970-05:00Fair enough -
Although that type of definition, s...Fair enough -<br /><br />Although that type of definition, seems to imply a B theory of time. Which makes the KCA moot.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14278834635241999491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6802109362344250457.post-71508367583230516302011-07-19T15:55:31.929-05:002011-07-19T15:55:31.929-05:00Hi Paul,
Yes, "causation" is usually de...Hi Paul,<br /><br />Yes, "causation" is usually defined in temporal terms. But I think Craig may be able to define causation in a non-temporal way. For example, imagine a "still-life" world in which nothing ever changed, where there is no time. Imagine a statue on a beach. The statue's foot might be said to be the cause of the depression beneath it in the sand. And that type of causation would be atemporal.<br /><br />So I don't think it's necessary to have time in order to have causation.AIGBustedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03232781356086767207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6802109362344250457.post-18922164784595437622011-07-19T14:06:50.539-05:002011-07-19T14:06:50.539-05:00It's not obvious to me, or even to most people...<i>It's not obvious to me, or even to most people (I think?) that the first moment of time just had to have some type of nontemporal cause.</i><br /><br />The notion of nontemporal cause doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I am getting caught up in semantics but isn't time implicit in the definition of "cause"?<br /><br />I think maybe something along the lines of - "nontemporal not-cause" would make more sense. Although I don't know what a not-cause is either.... :-)Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14278834635241999491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6802109362344250457.post-6364584399241660072011-07-18T07:11:41.990-05:002011-07-18T07:11:41.990-05:00Hi, since you (AIG Busted) are responsible for my ...Hi, since you (AIG Busted) are responsible for my reading of Gary Drescher, you might be interested in a brief essay I wrote called "A Cosmological Argument for Atheism, Modal Realism and Mathematical Monism" (available for free download at Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/60016003/A-Cosmological-Argument-for-Atheism-Modal-Realism-and-Mathematical-Monism), which reverses the Kalam Argument.Dr. Günter Bechlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03972774678090366711noreply@blogger.com