Post dedicated to America’s Newest Best Worst Apologist, Mel Wild: senior pastor at the Cornerstone Church. It is the most conspicuous religious question never answered, and this simple brute fact should aggravate and needle every waking moment of every person who believes this world was created: Why did the Creator create? For what purpose was … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Aseity
Why there is something rather than nothing.
Adapted from my new book, On the Problem of Good, available through Amazon and Createspace. Curiosity is a stubborn power. In the hands of a sufficiently motivated man, mystery can inspire great epics, or birth equally great madness. In the mind of an uncreated aseitic being it, inferably, spawns worlds; entire universes orientated to seeing behind … Continue reading
Aseity, Retrocausality, and the end of the Kalām Cosmological Argument.
Although more than willing to admit an outwardly sounding unshakable belief in their god, Christians are typically less than enthusiastic to offer up an actual working definition for it. Ask the average baptised-without-consent congregant and you’ll assuredly get as many half-baked guesses of what their assigned god is as there are believers. Ask an apologist, … Continue reading
