Recent content by RyanH

I have already addressed virtual particles in my first post in this thread. Please re-read it if you need a refresher. However, there are no good reasons to believe in the invisible pink unicorn, unlike the existence of God. So naturally, I won't believe in the invisible pink unicorn...

Whether the universe had matter before the big bang is a non-issue, because that matter would need a cause. In fact, the whole universe in itself would still need a cause. Big Bang and matter cannot be a first cause, because if it were then we should see matter randomly appearing out of...

Not proven. My argument did not consist of referring to popularity. It was the impossiblities of having an actual infinite amount of things. I was just pointing out that the majority of scientists today do hold that the universe had a beginning. Such as? Yes, if there are good...

Yes, and even so, those positions still affirm the second premise, the universe had a beginning. We know that time and matter are intrinsically linked. Plus events can only happen in time. Without time, there can be no change of anything. The universe cannot be both be existing for a...

The Real Cosmological Arguments Ok, I am a Christian theist responding to the various claims made in this thread. Firstly, the simple cosmological argument that munky99999 supplied is not held by any credible theistic Philosophers today. The reason is because as munky99999 suggested, it can...