Good afternoon. Welcome to Unbelievably. I'm Justin Briler. Your host for the show that

brings Christians and non-Christians together. As part of Faith explored every Saturday

afternoon here on Premier Christian Radio. But broadcasting around the world via our

podcast as well, and if you're listening at some other time of the week, even maybe

years from the actual date this program broadcasts, it's great to have you on board too. You

can find it more about the show past episodes, subscribe to the podcast and much more besides

at our show page, premierChristianRadio.com slash unbelievable links there of course to our

social media as well, where I frequently post up interesting stuff that you maybe want

to look at yourself. We'll be hearing some of your recent feedback to shows a little

later on in the program. And of course I'll be reminding you about the forthcoming unbelievable

conference, only a few weeks away now in the USA. In Portland, Oregon, I hope you can join

me there. On Friday, the 31st of August and Saturday, the 1st of September, we'll be

cluing you in on some of the speakers and topics that we'll be doing on the Saturday of

that very special weekend coming soon. Time to get into today's discussion.

Well today on the program, we're asking why is there something rather than nothing?

Why is there a universe at all? Did it have to be here? Is God behind it? Those are the

kinds of questions we're going to be addressing today. As we debate something, the philosophers

call the argument for God from contingency. That's part of a wider family of arguments

for God known as cosmological arguments. And actually next week's show, we'll do a

kind of part two as we deal with one well known example of that, the Kalam cosmological

argument. But today, it's this argument from contingency that we're looking at. As we

ask why there is something rather than nothing? And do we need God as a necessary being to

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