Glad you got around to reading this after hyping it over a year ago. As I said before, I would like to have read a book written by Flew after his conversion, rather than a book written by an evangelist and signed off by Flew.

Are you saying that arriving at the question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” is a NEW treatment of the cosmological/first cause argument? How long have William Lane Craig and Ray Comfort been using that now?

Why exactly is it that “an infinite series of dependent causes cannot produce an effect”? I think VenomFangX used an argument like this before his parents shut him down. Just as there are an infinite number of negative integers, an infinite number of things can have happened before the present if time or at least causality is infinite in both directions. In this case every cause has a cause, and there is no uncaused cause.

Forgetting that for now and supposing an uncaused cause, why is it more likely to be a god than…anything else? If there’s one thing in the history of everything that didn’t need causing, why would it be the single most complex, exotic, powerful, etc. thing imaginable? Wouldn’t something simpler (i.e. anything) be more probable? Especially given all the arguments from your side that the universe, which is less complex, etc. than a god, is still too incredible not to have been created, let alone caused?

I’ve got a copy of ‘The Resurrection of God’ if you wanna lend.
Its brilliant. I only got half way (that doesn’t say much cause I’m hopeless at readying) , but the introductory chapters are killer. Especially about our misconceptions regarding the pagan beliefs of the afterlife.

Keep up the good work