tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627627202031486081.post8476955468847517206..comments2023-10-09T10:35:20.874-04:00Comments on Thoughts of a Secular Jew: Shalmo The Dishonest DebatorSJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10704885840004960450noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627627202031486081.post-40174248827177670312010-10-18T16:50:48.627-04:002010-10-18T16:50:48.627-04:00[First of all, the argument is neither valid nor s...[First of all, the argument is neither valid nor sound. Second of all, if it were either, which it's not, the argument only supports the existence of a "prime mover" i.e. a sort of "cosmic fart" to get things started. Calling said prime mover "God" is baseless labeling. Furthermore, we do not KNOW that the universe had a beginning, we only think it did based on the latest theories, but some would argue that time itself began with the big bang (which was not an expansion of mass into a pre-existing space-time, but the expansion of the very fabric of reality), so arguably the universe always did exist, even if it was not infinite or eternal because according to standard big bang cosmology, there was no time before the Big Bang. Finally, your appeal to Newtonian causality in the context of the Big Bang is ironic, given that Big Bang theory is based on general relativity.]<br /><br />As for Shalmo, I do not think he is an atheist, but nor do I think he is an Islamic fundamentalist, for obvious reasons. I think he really is a Muslim, but a wishy-washy sort of modernist Muslim.Mellocknoreply@blogger.com