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🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well Bill, there's a YouTube video and it's on you and the Kalam Cosmological Argument. |
0:08.6 | It's called Physicist and Philosophers reply to the Kalam Cosmological Argument featuring |
0:15.0 | Penrose, Hawking and Gooth. |
0:17.8 | It's not only a long title, but it's a long video. |
0:21.8 | And you know, Bill, despite your confidence and your experience, this must have been a |
0:27.7 | little intimidating with this kind of a lineup. |
0:30.5 | Yes, when I first heard of this video with this stellar lineup of physicists and philosophers, |
0:38.2 | I was very impressed. |
0:40.2 | I mean, it looked like William Lane Craig against the world. |
0:45.3 | But when you actually dive into this video, I think you'll find that there's really |
0:50.8 | a lot less than meets the eye. |
0:53.7 | What you discover is that although the people being interviewed are great scholars, the |
1:00.9 | people who produced this video are popularizers. |
1:06.1 | And when they misrepresent the Kalam Argument to these scholars, then the inevitable result |
1:13.2 | will be criticisms aimed at a straw man. |
1:17.1 | And that greatly diminishes the value of this video. |
1:21.8 | Less for the scientific material in the video, there's really nothing new here. |
1:27.2 | It's just a rehash of old material that James Sinclair and I have already responded to |
1:33.1 | in our published work. |
1:35.1 | So the video really fails to advance the discussion. |
1:40.0 | So in the end, the video turns out to be somewhat less impressive than it at first appears. |
1:47.8 | So due to the experts featured in this video bill and its popularity, it's up to around |
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