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The Mystery of Existence: Why is there something rather than nothing? Part 1 with Richard Dawkins, Jessica Frazier, Silvia Jonas, Richard Swinburne and Jack Symes

Unbelievable?

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The Importance of Causality

Richard Swinburne is saying that we need a special explanation for why every particle behaves in exactly the same way. He asks: Why are the constitutions of the universe exactly the same kind of thing? If you define the kind of thing in terms of its powers, and I agree that's a reasonable way to do it, why are all the things in the universe have the same powers'? That question remains. There are two separate questions there. One is why do these particles have the properties that they do? And that is a profound question. The other is why do they all have the same properties, which is the one you're stressing?"

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