Can someone really hire an infinite number of assassins to take out Ryan? Also where did the universe come from? These are the questions that Dan and Ryan try to get to the bottom of in talking about the Kalam Cosmological Argument, which is a prominent argument for the existence of God.

Resources mentioned/used in this episode:

• The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology edited by William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland
  
  • Ch 2: "The Leibnizian cosmological argument" by Alexander R. Pruss
  • Ch 3: "The kalam cosmological argument" by William Lane Craig and James Sinclair
• This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories that Are Blocking Progress, edited by John Brockman
  • "Entropy" by Bruce Parker
• Hilbert's Hotel and Infinity by drcraigvideos
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
• "The Kalam Cosmological Argument" by William Lane Craig (website)
• Question of the Week #336: "Honesty, Transparency, Full Disclosure" and the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin Theorem by William Lane Craig

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