The Contingency Argument

[@alanrosenthal6323]

Why do people call in with proof that they clearly haven't spent any significant time and effort on. Very embarrassing.

[@pneumike1]

Contingency should be a post-supposition, not a presupposition. Conclusion not presumption.

[@blueredingreen]

"The singularity is god" - he could've started the call with that, and saved us all 24 minutes, because we could've just agreed that the singularity existed, and taken issue with him sticking the "god" label onto arbitrary things.

[@jns8393]

I see the mistake I've been making. I've not been praying to the singularity.

[@lothianthebrave2094]

One other thing to bring up is that something can be contingent on multiple things. We could have our universe built on a singular or multiple contingent sources. There's just no way to tell right now.

[@andreasplosky8516]

Caller is so stuck in his magical theistic superstitions, that he is not even able to understand Richard's objection. He can not even hear it. Richard repeats it, and repeats it, but caller keeps running in circles.

[@SecondaryHomunculus]

Damn, his first sentence establishes 100% error. Glorious.

[@toughenupfluffy7294]

"There is some thing that's eternal" requires evidence. Otherwise, it's just supposition. Tommy Boy.

[@popsbjd]

I don't know that we can say the universe had a finite beginning.

[@warrencolegrove1]

So God farted

[@rrodriguez4277]

New videoooo

[@KGP221]

Parents have the ultimate power of over their children when they are at their most vulnerable state in their lives. From conception through birth and childhood. They could have chosen abortion, adoption, abandonment, or to clothe, feed, nurture, and safeguard them. So yes, we all are contingent upon parents conceiving on the exact day they did throughout humanity's history going back to Ardipithecus, and arguably to the formation of basic particles and sub particles in our solar system and before that our galaxy. But I still don't recognize any characters in any version of any religion's literature who exhibit all-knowing and infallible capabilities. No gods required to explain life everywhere. One more idea I need to add. All of Earth's climate and weather begin with our sun. Any slight change in distance between Earth and it's sun, and an increase or decrease in our sun's activity can cause climate changes on a scale which might not favor growth for all species, or may favor some over others. Like Like Earth's sun dependent climate, our galaxy is dependent upon it's center. For all we know, there could be as many Big Bangs as there are galaxies. No person, object, or thing has gone out into the universe and discovered (found) the Truman Wall. We don't know where it's located, We don't know what chemical structure it's made of, or even if such a barrier exists.

[@keaco73]

Jonathan McClatchie?

[@kyleepratt]

If the singularity = god, does that mean god died? There isn't a singularity now, so...