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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 Mystery of Existence in the Single

Panelists discuss the mystery of existence in the singular, why there's something rather than nothing. Richard Swinburne makes an argument for why the cause of the world would have to be a person instead of some prior physical fact. The laws of science postulate that every thing in the world behaves in exactly the same way. And unless something causes them to behave in the same way, we're left once again with a multitude of things.

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