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agent cause

Intelligent Design: A response to the A-Unicornist

June 19, 2013 by Randal

Mike D (aka The A-Unicornist) wrote an article yesterday titled “Randal Rauser is an ID proponent“. Near the beginning of the article Mike D quotes me as stating: “ID is the view that appeal to intelligent or agent causal explanations is a legitimate part of natural science.” He then replies: That’s not accurate, actually. Because of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agent cause, intelligent design, philosophy of science

The kalam cosmological argument and libertarian free will (Part 2)

May 20, 2013 by Randal

For part 1 click here. (Warning: if you haven’t read part 1 yet then you should or part 2 won’t make much sense.) After thinking about the issue a bit more I decided there is a simpler and more elegant way to demonstrate that there is no incompatibility between the first premise of the kalam […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agent cause, efficient cause, Jonathan Pearce, kalam cosmological argument

Can a sane mind believe in a singularity?

October 8, 2012 by Randal

In the midst of our ongoing discussion of the origin of the universe and the role that agent causal explanations might play in accounting for it, Joseph Palazzo (in his amiable, diplomatic way) made the following comment: “BTW, do you understand what a singularity [is]? From the context of your post, it doesn’t look like […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agent cause, agnosticism, atheism, Big Bang, cosmological argument, theism, universe

Do you really believe the universe’s origin was uncaused, or were you just speculating?

October 4, 2012 by Randal

In my previous article “Komolgorov Complexity…” I presented one atheist scenario to explain the origin of the universe: Atheist scenario: A universe exists as a result of springing into existence uncaused out of nothing. This really bothered Adam Hazzard. At first he accused me of presenting this as the atheist position, which I didn’t. I […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agent cause, atheism, cosmology, event cause, origin, theism, universe

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