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Oldie but goodie, here. Martymer81 is a Swedish YouTube personality who specializes in unusually stupid arguments. This time he went after William Lane Craig's attempt to disprove Relativity with a syllogism.



Some background:

Back in 1979, WLC came up with a new version of the Kalam Cosmological argument. It's pretty much what he's known for and his career is more or less based on it. He vaguely borrowed language from modern physics to make it sound like science itself supports and verifies the Cosmological argument. (Loosely: science says the universe has a beginning, therefore magic!)

And for decades, he's been riding that wave. You can still find Muslims and Christians on the Internet who will use his arguments to insist that science "verifies" the claim that God exists using WLC's arguments. I've even had a Muslim physics graduate student (who seriously should have known better) try to use variants of this on me.

Anyway, the more he used this argument, the more excited Christians flocked to him and threw money at him because he "proved" that science "proves" God. He was a rock star. So of course, from decades of trying to use physics to "prove" god, he started to attract the attention of actual physicists, who explained in exhaustive detail what was wrong with his arguments.

Namely, if time has a beginning, how can time have a cause? The cause has to go before the effect, but if the effect is time itself, how can the cause go "before" the effect? If spacetime has a beginning, that doesn't prove god, that means that spacetime (so far as we can tell at the moment) must be uncaused.

Thus, WLC was forced into a series of backpedals and hilarious mental gymnastics. At one point, he tried to argue that the cause doesn't have to go before the effect for the law of cause and effect to apply. He insisted that they can be simultaneous and that potters working with clay prove that cause and effect can be simultaneous. You can still find theists on the Internet using this version of the WLC Kalam argument as well.

So of course everyone and their mother piled on to explain why his potter example does not prove that cause and effect can be simultaneous, so now he's stuck with needing to disprove Relativity in order to preserve his argument that originally used Relativity to lend credibility to it. So he's come full circle and now has to try and disprove something that at one time was a premise of his argument. The whole thing is a comedy of errors.

Of course, it doesn't matter what is wrong with the philosophical argument against Relativity. Craig's arguments can't disprove Relativity because Relativity has already been proved with evidence. Craig's argument shows that not only does he not understand Relativity (on which his argument was based), but he doesn't understand why things are true in science.

Even Ray "banana man" Comfort understands enough about why things are true in science to lie about the evidence, but only Craig is dumb enough to think the evidence doesn't matter.

Anyway, as useless as this is, Martymer had fun picking through the actual syllogism and explained why it's wrong using his peculiar sense of humor, which ends with a hilarious caricature of rednecks.
 
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