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#14 — William Lane Craig | The Kalam Cosmological Argument

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The Paradox of the Light Bulb

An infinite number of things has happened in a finite amount of time, says philosopher. The paradox known as Thompson's lamp after the author who invented it. There is no immediate causally connected state prior to that last state. And therefore the state of the lamp at that last state would be literally uncaused - which I think is metaphysically absurd.

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