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Dr. William Lane Craig vs Lawrence Krauss, Part 2

In the Arena: The Debates and Lectures of William Lane Craig

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The Importance of Nothingness in the Theory of the Universe

Hawking's model involves an absolute beginning of the universe. He says that it can come into being out of nothingness because nothing is unstable. If a religious person were to so seriously misrepresent a scientific theory as this, he would be accused of deliberate distortion and abuse of science. What the quantum vacuum is, is a royaling sea of energy. It is not nothing. Empty space is not empty. Nothing is really a bubbling, boiling brew of virtual particles. And my point is that that quantum vacuum state cannot be eternal in the past. That was the implication of the board booth, the Lincoln theorem. Listen to what the Lincoln writes. I don't mean nothing. Nothing is a nothing

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