Professor Newcomb's Cosmological Argument

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Cosmological Argument

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The argument below uses deductive logic. Modern science uses inductive logic which only provides a probability of something being true. The more tests that are done successfully increase the probability but cannot prove something absolutely, therefore you are always faced with what is called an inductive leap of faith. Deductive logic can prove a point if the rules of logic are followed. It is the only way to know something is certain.
Here we go:
Either nothing exists or something exists. It is self evident that something exists, "cigito ergo sum," therefore something exists.
If something exists, then it either had no beginning or a beginning. The “no beginning” scenario contradicts the second law of thermodynamics since it could not have had infinite energy, it could not have existed forever and at this point in time still have organized energy of any type, therefore it must have had a beginning.
If it had a beginning, then either it was self caused, or it was uncaused, or it was created by some external force. No other possibilities exist. The self caused scenario contradicts the law of non contradiction, that is, it cannot both exist and not exist at the same time, and it would have to exist in order to create itself, this is logically absurd and physically impossible. The uncaused scenario violates the law of cause and effect, every contingent thing has a cause, everything physical is contingent, therefore the physical universe must have been created by some external force. This contradicts no laws of nature because it deals with something that is outside of nature.
If it was created, then it was either a natural creation or supernaturally created. The natural creation scenario is the same as self caused, which violates logic, since it cannot both exist and not exist at the same time and to cause something the causative agent must exist. Therefore is must have been a supernatural creation, that is, it was caused by something else outside of the physical universe. (Note: For you to say there is nothing outside of the physical universe demands that you have all knowledge of what is outside the physical universe and this is patently false.)
If it was supernaturally created then it was either created by an unintelligent being or an intelligent being. The law of first causes tells us this must have been an intelligent being since there seems to be some intelligence in humans and in nature and the first cause must be greater than that which it causes, otherwise you must say that a super powerful unintelligent being created intelligence, and that is a bit like saying a Chimpanzee created a computer except that the chimp has some intelligence and therefore that would be a more probable scenario. Therefore, the supernatural being that created the universe was intelligent.
Either this supernatural intelligent being was impersonal, or personal. The impersonal scenario contradicts the law of first causes applied to personality, that is, where did personality come from? Therefore we must either jump to irrational denial or conclude that the universe was created by a supernatural powerful intelligent personal being. This fits all knows facts better than any other theory. Humanity has generally referred to this being (in English) as "God."

Using this in an arguement with another professor in a public forum, the only answer I recieved was, and I quote: "People like you will ruin this country." The country was tagged because this argument was followed by arguments from the Declaration of Independence about where our rights come from and the idea that God is the creator of man. Quite a come-back hey?

Another Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God

1) Some things exist.
2) My non-existence is possible.
3) Whatever has the possibility of not existing is caused by something.
4) There cannot be an infinite regression of causes.
5) Therefore a first cause must exist.
6) The first cause is uncaused, by definition and must be more powerful than what was caused.
7) No effect can be greater than its cause.
8) This all powerful being that cause all causes things to happen is referred to as "God."
9) Therefore God exists.

Argument for the God of the Bible being this God

1) There can be only one uncaused first cause being called God.
2) The Bible describes a being that is the uncaused first cause of everything.
3) Therefore, The God of the Bible is the best candidate for the uncaused first cause being called God.

Argument for God being Personal

1) The Bible teaches that God has personal characteristics such as anger (Deut. 1:37, 4:21), jealousy (Ex. 34:14), he is kind (II Sam 2:6), and loving (I Jn 4:8, 16), (I Cor. 13) etc.
2) These attributes are personality characteristics.
3) Therefore God is personal (having personality).
Again,
a) No effect can be greater than its cause
b) People have personality which is an effect of a cause
c) Therefore the cause must be personal.

Theory of Evolution, or: How Low Can Probability Go? Could Life Form By Itself?
The real question here, since we are using Inductive Logic, and therefore must predict the probability that an event occurred is: What is the probability that life could have arisen spontaneously from non living matter? Let's look at some of the things that lower the probability: Lipids Lipids (or fats) are created inside living organisms. Living organisms need lipids to live since they form the “skin” of the individual cells. Only something that is living can produce the necessary molecules for life. DNA The most complicated molecule in the universe is DNA. It is made up of an unusual sugar (deoxyribose) phosphates and four out of five possible nucleotides (in plants one of them is different than in humans), yet it carries the blueprint for the entire body. Each complementary set of two forms the “step” of the ladder that makes up this blueprint. The more complicated the organism the more steps there are in the code. In humans this code is approximately 3,000,000,000 pairs long. Yet even in a simple organism like E- coli there are 4 million pairs. So even in the simplest organism the molecule is incredibly complicated. These are the size of organisms evolutionists insist started the evolutionary steps toward life, yet the probability of this simpler molecule arising spontaneously is on the order of 1 x 10⁴⁰⁰. Now consider that this sequence must be exact, that is one error could wipe out the organism, and the probability jumps to something on the order of 1x10⁴⁰⁰⁰ RNA RND is like DNA except that it is comprised of one half the molecule and there are three types (Ribosomal, transfer, and messenger). This is the molecule that takes the code from the DNA and creates the proteins ordered by the DNA using a small organelle called rough endoplasmic reticulum. The probability of this molecule arising spontaneously is actually calculated into the DNA above since it is a contingent molecule. Proteins Proteins are made up of 21 different amino (1 imino) acids Usually there are about 16 of the total 21 necessary for every protein in the world. For life to spontaneously arise we would to have had all 21 amino acids not only arise by accident (the probability is close to nil) and have sufficient number to have all 21 in the same time at the same place and happen to come together randomly in perfect order. The probability has been calculated as 1 x 10²⁰⁰.
Intelligent humans have managed to cause several to appear in test vials without organic components, however, these were exceptionally simple compounds using ammonia and carbon. It has never been shown that any of the others could arise spontaneously. Also, in the lab, half of those that were made were right handed and half left. All those found in living organisms are left handed.
Also, no organism has just one protein necessary for life. All organisms require a large number of different proteins. Let’s say that number is small and is only 10 (more likely 16 to 20 for virons, etc). This brings the probability to 1 x 10²⁰⁰⁰
Keep in mind, even if we find out that amino acids do form spontaneously, this is only one small step in the necessary equation. We still need to prove that they did form spontaneously and that they then self organized without any of the left handed molecules (of which 50% of those that form are) and that they then came together in more complicated forms until all the required molecules accumulated in one place (in an area that is 22,000,000,000 light years in diameter) at one time and they spontaneously formed into the appropriate systems so that a self replicating system could be established, and, that it did replicated, and, then that it deviated from that form into a different form (against the law of biogenesis) etc. etc.
To create a self replicating system you would need at least 20 to 40 proteins each containing 70 to 600 amino acids and each containing about 1900 nucleotides pairs to make it reproduce, and then three types of RNA each with about 1400 nucleotides to have a simple self replicating system.
Now you have to get that system not only to self replicate but to replicate a different system and have enough variations to allow one out of 20,000,000 or so actually survive, and then pass on the genetic error that is somehow beneficial to its offspring.
The magic dust that is sprinkled on this idea is called by evolutionists “natural selection” or more basically, survival of the fittest.” Keep in mind that this is a process of elimination or reduction, not one of increasing complexity. It eliminates potential genetic variations from duplicating and increases the odds against successful evolution.
It is more rational to believe a computer, which is intelligently designed can rewrite this paper by itself and crank out intelligent discussions of different subjects than to believe that random chance started with uncoded information and output the highest code ever developed. (See Simple Cell below). Photosynthesis Photosynthesis can occur because a very complicated molecule called chlorophyll captures a photon and uses its energy to form sugar out of carbon dioxide and water. Intelligent human beings have been unable to design a molecule as complex as this one. Only living organisms form chlorophyll. Since our own hemoglobin is identical to chlorophyll (with the replacement of the magnesium molecule with iron), it would seem that the same engineer who designed the chlorophyll reused his masterful design again in our blood. Sunlight damages organisms. Chlorophyll can capture the energy of the sun to build energy molecules with that energy. It took intelligent man thousands of years before he could develop a system to capture the energy of sunlight in a similar process, the photovoltic cell. What we know from this is that intelligence can create something that can capture the energy of sunlight for useful purposes. The "Simple" Cell Required by Evolutionists Basically, evolutionists believe that life started when some form (yet undiscovered) of cyanobacteria, probably an blue green algae accumulated enough organic material and, by chance, those organic molecules became alive. There are no simple organisms. Even bacteria have:
A Cell Membrane (a moderately complicated system produced only by living things, but required for life.)
A Cytoskeleton (a reasonably complicated systems produced only by living things.)
Various Endocytic vesicles (extremely complicated system requiring living things to produce them and required for life.)
Various Exocytic vesicles (extremely complicated systems requiring living things to produce them, and required for life.))
Numerous Mitochondria (extremely complicated system requiring living things to produce them)
Numerous smooth and rough Endoplastic reticulum (also extremely complicated proteins)
DNA (where the required environment for the formation of the sugars would prevent the formation of the nucleotides.)
RNA (Same problem as with DNA)
A centriole to help it divide.
Remember then that spontaneous life from non-life requires all of these. One scientists calculated the probability that life arose spontaneously from non life as 1x10^200,000.
Do you play the lottery? The chance of one in 10,000,000 (a favorable change for most lotteries) is expressed thusly: 1x10⁷
If you broke every atom down to the smallest known particles, the entire universe is made up of approximately 1x10⁷⁰ particles! In fact, if the chance for any event happening is greater than 1x10⁵⁰ then it is considered impossible statistically and if it is as low as 1x10¹² it is close enough to consider it practically impossible (1 chance in 1 trillion). "Practically" in this sense means it really can't happen even though mathematically there is a chance.
In short the probability is the same as labeling one electron and then placing it in a universe that is 2,857 of our current universes and then picking that electron out of the universe the first time, blindfolded!
The fallacy that is most used by the evolutionists is called the “post hoc” fallacy. Correctly, post hoc ergo propter hoc, or, after this, therefore because of this. That is, since there is no God, and life exists, we must have evolved, so given enough time anything will have a chance of occurrence. But probability does not change with time. In fact, the probability decreases if there are admixtures of chemicals, which there are in the real universe. The Problems of the Primordial Soup Required by Evolutionists As above, evolution requires that certain conditions must exist for the theory to be possible . Many have simply defaulted to the idea that there is some form of primordial soup that existed at the time evolution started. In this soup the sugars, fats, nucleotides, nucleosides, amino acids, and other necessary ingredients formed and were available for the evolutionary process to begin. More that a few problems exist with this idea.
1) There is virtually no evidence of this soup.
2) It has never been shown that a soup like this described can even be formed by intelligent beings, to say nothing about random chance. The idea of this soup came from the required conditions in vitro for producing a few simple amino acids. Most amino acids have never been synthesized thusly neither have any of the required nucleotides and nucleosides
3) It has been shown that this soup could not form both nucleotides and sugars at the same time. The necessary conditions for sugars to form would preclude the formation of the nucleotides. No person (intelligent life form) has been able to create conditions for the formation of both, yet it happened by accident? If this soup is possible, why can't intelligent life produce it?
4) If this soup did happen where is the residue of it. There should be some left somewhere. In a cavern, trapped in a thickened form in pockets of rock, etc. But there is none.
If the soup contained any amount of useless ions (caused by various salts dissolving) these salts would take up all possible bonding sites and prevent further reactions, yet this soup is supposed to have existed in salt water. No one can explain or duplicate the environment where this could have happened