SAFT Podcast

Ep #68 - Do Atheists Think BEETHOVEN Could POP Out Of Thin Air In Your Room?

August 21, 2022 SAFT Apologetics Episode 68
SAFT Podcast
Ep #68 - Do Atheists Think BEETHOVEN Could POP Out Of Thin Air In Your Room?
Show Notes Chapter Markers

The question remains: if the universe could really come from nothing, then why can't Beethoven or Bhagat Singh pop out of nowhere? If NOTHING created the universe, if really NO-THING created the universe then why the preference for universe(s) alone? Why can't anything and everything appear out of nowhere, from nowhere, and for no reason? How can the lack-of-anything (nothing) have any preference? What are the three solid reasons to say something cannot come from nothing (or that everything that begins to exist has a cause)? Join us to find out.

Chapter markers: 
00:00- Intro
00:19- Recap of EP 67
02:22- Russell's teapot analogy
05:23- Why was the teapot analogy used?
07:28- Mackie's point
08:31- Who is David Hume?
10:34- Mackie and 'Cause and Effect'
13:10- What are the 3 Arguments for Premise 1?
13:30- A1-Metaphysical intuition
17:16- A2-Why doesn't everything/anything come from nothing?
21:36- A3-Our experience 
22:49- Outro

Links and citation:

  • J. L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1982), 89
  • William Lane Craig & Alex O'Connor: Why Can't Something Come from Nothing? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUhKnzA_0dM)
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Intro
Recap of EP 67
Russell's teapot analogy
Why was the teapot analogy used?
Mackie's point
Who is David Hume?
Mackie and 'Cause and Effect'
What are the 3 Arguments for Premise 1?
A1-Metaphysical intuition
A2-Why doesn't everything/anything come from nothing?
A3-Our experience
Outro