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Craig (1992:238) claims that it is 'philosophically unobjectionable' to conceive of God as causally prior to the Big Bang, since 'God's act of creation may be regarded as simultaneous with the origin of the universe'. However—as Grünbaum observes on several occasions— many of us find it hard to make any sense of this suggestion. It is true that there are contexts in which it clearly makes sense to speak of 'simultaneous causation'—e.g. as Craig notes, there is no impropriety in the claim that the downward pressure exerted by the otherwise unsupported head causes the indentation in the pillow—but this is compatible with the claim that, strictly speaking, causation must be local and mediated by finite signals. On this view, given a sufficient margin of error, causation can appear simultaneous—but there is no reason to think that there is any genuinely simultaneous causation.
Graham Oppy, "Professor William Craig's Criticisms of Critiques of Kalam Cosmological Arguments By Paul Davies, Stephen Hawking, And Adolf Grünbaum" (1995)
January 29, 2010
Category: Skepticism
Oh, no. I'm flying off to the UK tomorrow, and I've just learned that all my favoritest, bestest people there are going to kill themselves just 8 hours from now (uh, remember, correlation is not causation…I'm sorta sure it's not...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:09 PM • 108 Comments •
Category: Politics
The murderer of Dr George Tiller has been convicted and now faces a life sentence. The Kansas jury didn't take long at all — it was an open-and-shut case of pre-planned assassination and terrorism. Thank you, Kansans....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:19 PM • 462 Comments •
Category: Organisms
Enteroctopus zealandicus (via TONMO)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:32 AM • 27 Comments •
January 28, 2010
Here's a new tradition I have to encourage: I was brought a cheesecake at last night's talk at Stanford. It was fabulous: white chocolate raspberry chocolate chip. The fellow who sent it along was Victor Harris of Reuschelle's Cheesecakes. He...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:49 PM • 64 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Ben Stein wins another honor. He has been declared the Rosa Parks of Darwin skeptics on the Rosa Parks of Rosa Parks Blogs, which points out amusing and offensive instances of rhetorical hyperbole. The amusing bit here, though, is that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:50 PM • 346 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
There is an account of my Stanford visit in the Stanford Daily. I've definitely gotta work on my rabidity....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:46 PM • 22 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
This is my last day in California, and you people have filled up the cosmic thread I started here. You know there's only one sentiment I can express here, and the words to this song are just perfect. On the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:53 AM • 1066 Comments •
Category: Weirdness
Gayle Haggard, wife of meth-snorting fan of gay prostitutes Ted Haggard has just had a press conference in which she announces that Ted Haggard is completely heterosexual…to which I can only reply with this song. Mrs Haggard also says "Our...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:32 AM • 243 Comments •
Category: Personal
It is Thursday, right?My brain is melting a bit, so I'm not really sure any more. I know I'm getting on the train again this afternoon and heading up to Sacramento, at least. I'm giving one more talk in California,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:22 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Personal
The interview in which I answered the top 10 questions submitted by Reddit readers is now online, and it's right here. I haven't watched it. I can never bear to see myself in these things. You'll have to tell me...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:16 AM • 45 Comments •
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