Bill, the Majesty of Reason podcast hosted by Joe Schmidt has responded to one of our recent

podcast on the Kalam Cosmological Argument.

You've been a guest on that podcast.

It's over two hours long, but let's pick out some of the

excerpts of their key responses. And first, Bill, I'd like to remind our viewers that the evidence

from the expansion of the universe is only one part of your case in support of the premise that

the universe began to exist?

Yes, that's right, Kevin. We mustn't forget, for example, the scientific evidence

based upon the thermodynamic properties of the universe, the generalized second law of thermodynamics

and Wall's theorem. And then in addition to the scientific confirmation,

we have the two philosophical arguments for the finitude of the past that I offer, and more

recently arguments by people like Rob Coons and Alex Pruss for causal finitism. So the support for the second premise of the argument

that the universe began to exist is very weighty. Now, I have not listened to this entire podcast.

I've only seen the excerpts you've picked. So if some things go unresponded to, I hope that our listeners

will be tolerant of that and that the responses that we do offer to these clips will be helpful.

And there's more on Question of the Week, number 912. If you'd like to pursue this more,

you addressed a lot of this on Question of the Week, number 912. If you'd like to pursue this more, you addressed a lot of this on question of the week number 912 at reasonable faith.org. So everybody can check that out.

This first clip is Joe Schmidt and his guest, Dr. Daniel Linford and Phil Halper, talking about Hawking and the latest consensus.

Here's the first clip.

The great comment to make is everyone agrees that it's the singularity theorem that gives you the justification for the beginning of the universe, and the singularity theorem can't be trusted.

Now, Hawking was saying, well, I still think there's a beginning, but you have to unpack, why does he think that?

And now, I've been in his office and I've interviewed him and I've spoken to his colleagues, and I think the reason is that he interprets the Hartle Hawking model as still having a beginning.

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