Philosopher William Lane Craig (Fig. 12.4) brought this point home forcefully in an interview I conducted with him several years ago. He pointed out that saying the universe might have popped into existence uncaused for no reason at all is no different from saying that a freight train or a Bengal tiger might have done so. Though, he pointed out, there was no way to disprove such possibilities, reason and the scientific investigation of the world depend upon the opposite assumption—that all such material events do have causes. He said those who deny this principle and who yet also decry the
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