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Big Bang

9. A conversation with physicist Don Page (Part 1)

July 19, 2013 by Randal

In this episode of The Tentative Apologist podcast I interview Professor Don N. Page, a theoretical physicist who works in the area of cosmology and gravitation. Dr. Page completed his PhD in physics and astronomy at Caltech (1976) and went on to complete a post-doc under Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University (1976-1979). After teaching for […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Big Bang, Christianity, Don Page, physics, science

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

Verboten explanations

October 7, 2012 by Randal

The other day I observed that the evidence supports the conclusion that the universe is not eternal. Joseph Palazzo shot back: “You have no evidence of that.” Notice the lack of qualification. I have no evidence to say the universe began to exist a finite time ago. Really? So then what does the evidence establish? Ray Ingles explains: “The […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agent causation, apologetics, Big Bang, cosmological argument

God Delusions? Some reflections on Dawkins vs. Lennox

March 26, 2012 by Randal

Yesterday I finished leading three weeks of adult Sunday school based on the film “The God Delusion Debate”, a dialogue/debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox. Overall it was an engaging dialogue and Lennox made some good points. He also had what was undoubtedly the best line of the event. After the moderator quoted Dawkins […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Big Bang, God Delusion, John Lennox, Richard Dawkins

The universe and an agent cause

April 25, 2011 by Randal

The universe needs an explanation for its existence. It would need an explanation even if it had always existed, but how much more obvious is the need when we realize the universe has existed for only a finite time (approximately 13.8 billion years). I argued that the best explanation is a necessarily existent agent cause. Agent […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agent causation, Big Bang, cosmological argument, event causation, infinite regress, universe

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