If you’ve participated in many discussions about science or religion in which the word “nothing” plays a central role, you’ve probably noticed that “nothing” has different meanings for different people. Robert Lawrence Kuhn has put together a thought-provoking taxonomy of nine levels of nothing, which I think could be very useful for clarifying which “nothing” someone has in mind during such conversations.
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bookmark_borderWLC’s Debate Quotation of Anthony Kenny
Here is WLC’s quotation of Kenny:
A proponent of the Big Bang Theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the universe came from nothing and by nothing.
And here is a critique:
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