If you start to count up from 0 to the largest number will you ever finish counting? It would take literally forever! How about starting to count down from the largest number all the way down to 0? Is it even possible to start, let alone asking how long it would take?! This impossibility faces anyone who says the universe never began to exist or has always existed. Join us to learn more about this simplified philosophical argument for why the universe must have had a beginning.
Chapter markers:
0:00- Intro
0:47- What have we covered so far?
01:57- Premise 2
02:30- What is the philosophical argument for Premise 2
04:54- What is infinite regression?
07:48- How long will it take for today to arrive?
08:11- Example to highlight how we can/can't count
11:22- Where do start counting then?
14:26- The book borrowing example
25:00- Outro
Links and citation:
- Craig, William Lane. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
- Flew, A., & Varghese, R. A., There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
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