#57 Dr. Dan Linford | The Universe Can Begin Without a Cause
Uncertainty - A podcast by Miles K. Donahue
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Dr. Dan Linford and I discuss the causal principle, that everything that begins to exist has a cause. We look at William Lane Craig's oft-repeated three reasons for affirming the premise: something cannot come from nothing, if something could come from nothing, then anything and everything should come from nothing, and an inductive generalization supports the causal principle.Check out Linford's paper discussing neo-Russellian analyses of causation, "Without microphysical causation, not just anything can begin to exist just anywhere".To support the channel, do please oh please consider donating via PayPal or Buy Me a Coffee. Feel free to follow me on Twitter.EPISODE CHAPTERS00:00:00 Introduction00:01:58 Different types of "causes"00:05:49 Premise (1) of the KCA00:10:19 First argument for CP: An inductive generalization00:23:56 Metaphysics should be continuous with physics00:34:27 Is science our only source of knowledge?00:38:32 Second argument for CP: Something cannot come from nothing00:42:16 Is neo-Russellianism just too counter-intuitive?
