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Hi Dr. Craig, I wanted to ask you about a potential objection to

the cosmological argument.

Is it possible that the uncaused cause

is an eternal state of quantum potential

that led to the creation of the universe?

And if the state could exist

with that not solved the problem of creation without God

as the state is uncaused and always existed?

And this first state doesn't necessarily have to be quantum potential

so long as the state is something that is uncaused.

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I think the problem with appealing to some sort of quantum mechanical state

is that such a state is inherently unstable

and therefore could not exist for eternity past

and then just to finite number of years ago produce the universe.

In my article with James Sinclair in the Blackwell Companion

to Natural Theology, we talk about a number of possible cosmological models

that would try to have a quantum state that goes back eternally

and all of these models in the end failed to be viable descriptions

of the real physical universe.

Dear Dr. Craig, how could the universe be a matter of 13 billion years old

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