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Arguments from contingency are widely considered to be among the strongest offered in defense of God. So why don’t I spend more time worrying about cosmological and contingency arguments?
Even those unfamiliar with cosmological arguments will have encountered the perennial "Why is there something rather than nothing" out in the wild. If a theist wants to know why there is something rather than nothing, then, for the sake of argument, I'll say that however they explain the existence of God, that's how I explain the existence of nature.
Philip Goff, responding to Joanna Leidenhag: philpapers.org/archive/GOFPCF.pdf
Graham Oppy - An argument for atheism from naturalism philpapers.org/archive/OPPAAF.pdf
Graham Oppy - The Best Argument Against God amazon.com/Best-Argument-against-Palgrave-Pivot/dp/1137354135
Transcript emersongreenblog.wordpress.com/2021/12/07/why-dont-i-spend-more-time-on-contingency-arguments
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00:00 Introduction
01:36 Oppy and “Whatever range of options…”
06:16 Rowe and Stage II
07:15 Goff’s reply to theists
10:32 Final thoughts
11:37 goodbye
Arguments from contingency are widely considered to be among the strongest offered in defense of God. So why don’t I spend more time worrying about cosmological and contingency arguments?
Even those unfamiliar with cosmological arguments will have encountered the perennial "Why is there something rather than nothing" out in the wild. If a theist wants to know why there is something rather than nothing, then, for the sake of argument, I'll say that however they explain the existence of God, that's how I explain the existence of nature.
Philip Goff, responding to Joanna Leidenhag: philpapers.org/archive/GOFPCF.pdf
Graham Oppy - An argument for atheism from naturalism philpapers.org/archive/OPPAAF.pdf
Graham Oppy - The Best Argument Against God amazon.com/Best-Argument-against-Palgrave-Pivot/dp/1137354135
Transcript emersongreenblog.wordpress.com/2021/12/07/why-dont-i-spend-more-time-on-contingency-arguments
https://linktr.ee/emersongreen
/ timestamps /
00:00 Introduction
01:36 Oppy and “Whatever range of options…”
06:16 Rowe and Stage II
07:15 Goff’s reply to theists
10:32 Final thoughts
11:37 goodbye
