Physicists & Philosophers debunk the Kalam Cosmological Argument featuring Penrose, Hawking, Guth

We have assembled some of the world’s leading physicists and philosophers to reply to the Kalam Cosmological Argument for God (as presented in popular debates by the Christian Philosopher William Lane Craig). The argument says that everything that begins to exist has a cause, the universe began to exist, therefore the universe has a cause, which must be God. We show the flaws in this argument, featuring interviews we conducted with physicists Roger Penrose, Stephen Hawking, Alan Guth, Carlo Rovelli, Alex Vilenkin, Niayesh Afshordi and many others as well as philosophers such as AW Moore (co-editor of the world's leading philosophy journal Mind), Oxford logician Daniel Isaacson, Cambridge philosopher Arif Ahmed, philosopher of science specialising in foundations of quantum mechanics Alastair Wilson, and Alex Malpass and Daniel Linford who have both published multiple articles on the Kalam in leading journals. Most of the footage was shot especially for this film and all of those participants reviewed it carefully before release. All of the other living participants, where we reused interview footage from previous films, were sent a draft of this one in advance and asked if they objected to appearing or wanted changes. None objected and all changes are in the final film you see. Most participants gave extremely positive feedback and we hope you will too.


Timecodes

0:00 Introduction

1:38 Actual versus Potential Infinity

2:40 Cantor's Infinity

3:06 The Infinite Property

5:42 Hilbert’s Hotel

11:16 Contradiction & not a Contradiction

13:38 Jupiter and Saturn

14:52 Physicists on Infinity

16:38 Counting to Infinity

18:36 The Infinite Future

22:35 Spacetime Singularity

24:50 Carlo Rovelli on Neo Lorentzian Relativity and Cosmic Time

28:29 Hawking, Penrose, Vilenkin, Efstathiou on The Big Bang & Quantum Gravity

29:37 Strings, Loops and the Big Bounce

31:16 Guth and Vilenkin on the BGV

34:00 Is a Collapsing Universe Unstable?

35:31 Wall Theorem, Ashtekar and Afshordi

36:36 Anthony Aguirre on Past Eternal Universe

37:47 Singularities, Magueijo and Vidotto

38:24 Second Law, Guth and Ashtekar

40:43 A Universe From Nothing? Vilenkin

42:53 Causality

44:17 Interpretations of QM

48:05 Tigers in Our Living Room, Vilenkin

49:44 Causality and Philosophy

51:25 Simultaneous Causation

54:46 Can The Universe Create Itself?

56:51 Ghazali's Argument

57:53 Closing Arguments