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The Atheist Experience 27.26 07-02-2023 with JMike and Armin Navabi

The Atheist Experience

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The Initial State of the Universe

D.S.: My view that I'm most sympathetic towards is that there's an initial state of the universe, and that initial state is necessary. D.S: In my view, all non-initial items that begin to exist have a cause. But the initial item, like, the first thing, the beginning, the first moment of time, that's the beginning of natural reality. It has no cause, right? It's just exist of metaphysical necessity. He says we might be asking too much of our brain when it comes to thinking about the initialState of the universe or other new things discovered through modern physics. "I would expect the answer to be something that actually doesn't

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