William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig (1949) is an American Baptist Christian analytical philosopher and theologian. Craig's philosophical contributions focus on the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of time. His theological interest is in the studies of the historical Jesus and in philosophical theology. Craig has made internationally renowned contributions to discussions of the cosmological argument for the existence of God, divine omniscience, theories of time and eternity, and the historicity of Jesus' resurrection. His current research deals with the divine aseity (self-sufficiency) of God and with the challenge posed by Platonic accounts of abstract objects to this doctrine. Craig is the author of several books, the most notable of which, Reasonable Faith, published in Spanish as Reasonable Faith.
William Lane Craig
Contemporary Expansion Models and Creation Ex Nihilo
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The biblical doctrine of temporal creation ex nihilo has received strong scientific confirmation from post-relativistic physics. Two lines of evidence point to an absolute beginning of the universe: the expansion of the universe and the thermodynamics of the universe. In each case attempts to maintain a past-eternal universe have become increasingly difficult to defend.
Given the beginning of the universe, the question arises as to how the universe could have come into being. Attempts by some physicists to maintain that physics can explain the origin of the universe from nothing either trade on an equivocal use of the term “nothing” or else are guilty of philosophical faux pas. Supernatural creation ex nihilo is the better explanation.