Debate: Is A Prime Mover Necessary?

I recently completed a series with an atheist as we had this debate: Is A Prime Mover Necessary? It was very entertaining, very enlightening and very thought provoking. My opponent was the eAtheist named Rev, and he was much more courteous, much more polite, and much more intelligent than myself. But despite that, he is wrong, a Prime Mover is necessary for the universe to exist, and I think I made that case thoroughly in our dialogue. The links below are the fulness of our debate. My Introduction Rev’s Introduction…

Is A Prime Mover Necessary? (Conclusion)

This is my conclusion of my debate with the eAtheist Rev on the subject Is A Prime Mover Necessary? (Conclusion) If you would like to familiarize yourself with the debate, please read the following links before continuing. My Introduction Rev’s Introduction My First Rebuttal Rev’s First Rebuttal My Second Rebuttal Rev’s Second Rebuttal My Three Answers Rev’s Three Answers What you will notice about Rev’s rebuttal of my notion that two contradictory statements cannot be true simultaneously is that he never addressed my objection. He just said that it is…

Is A Prime Mover Necessary? (3 Answers)

This is a continuation of my debate with the eAtheist Rev on the subject Is A Prime Mover Necessary? (3 Answers). If you would like to familiarize yourself with the debate, please read the following links before continuing. My Introduction Rev’s Introduction My First Rebuttal Rev’s First Rebuttal My Second Rebuttal Rev’s Second Rebuttal At this point, Rev posed three questions for me to answer. Question #1 Supernatural, by definition, means “without an explanation”. If an event had a provable explanation we would call it natural. Therefore in order to…

Is A Prime Mover Necessary? (Second Rebuttal)

This post is continuation in a debate with an atheist named Rev on the topic Is A Prime Mover Necessary? (Second Rebuttal). Before reading I recommend reading the following posts. My Introduction Rev’s Introduction My First Rebuttal Rev’s First Rebuttal I would like to begin in stating gratitude to my debate opponent for behaving as a gentlemen, as too often in discussions such as this one the central topic is deluded in insults and personal attacks, so discussion with Rev has been much appreciated. In this dialogue I have attempted…

Is A Prime Mover Necessary? (First Rebuttal)

This is a continuation of my debate Is A Prime Mover Necessary? (First Rebuttal). When the cosmological argument for the existence of a Prime Mover was initially formulated, it was of course, a priori, that is to say that it was absent any scientific or empirical data, simply because there was none available at the time. This is the treatment of the argument that I defended in my introduction, so my argument is probably not too different from that of the radical Muslim philosopher, Al-Ghazzali. In defending a priori arguments,…

Is A Prime Mover Necessary?

When one looks about the world, we are often led to questions regarding our own existence and the existence of the physical world. There are certain truths which we cannot prove but are rational to accept, such as the objectivity of the external world, the reality of other minds aside from my own. So we will wonder where these things came from. Neither myself nor my debate opponent are an exception. This is the first in my debate series known as Is A Prime Mover Necessary? To many people, these…