I publish for blog readers the video (subtitled) of the debate “Does God
exist or not exist?” which I held against Luis Arbaiza, representative of the
Peruvian Association of Atheists, at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences of
the Major National University
of San Marcos (Lima - Peru) on May 10, 2013.
Here is the link: http://youtu.be/6Ou5h_MkpBk (This first part corresponds to the presentation, the
opening speeches and rebuttals).
In what follows, the referential quotations that I used in my
interventions:
Opening
speech:
“If the universe has a finite stock of order, and is changing
irreversibly towards disorder - ultimately to thermodynamic equilibrium - two
very deep inferences follow immediately. The first is that the universe will
eventually die, wallowing, as it were, in its own entropy. This is known among
physicists as the “heat death” of the universe. The second is that the universe
cannot have existed forever, otherwise it would have reached its equilibrium
end state an infinite time ago. Conclusion: the universe did not always exist. The
universe cannot have existed forever, otherwise it would have reached its
equilibrium state an infinite time ago. Conclusion: the universe did not always
exist”. (Paul Davies, Dios y la Nueva
Física, Salvat Press, Barcelona, 1994, p. 16)
On the Spacetime Singularity Theorem, see: Stephen
Hawking y Roger Penrose, “The
singularities of gravitational collapse and cosmology”, Proceedings of the
Royal Society of London, Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, vol.
CCCXIV, nº 1519, 1970, pp 529–548.
“The human body is constantly undergoing repair and renewal to such an
extent that we undergo a complete turnover in (molecular) parts every seven
years (on average)”. (Michael Murray, “God and Neuro-Science”, www.reasonablefaith.org, question nº 42)
Rebuttal
“The Creator’s aim must have been [precise] to an accuracy of one part
in 10 to the Power of 10 to the ower of 123. This is an extraordinary figure.
One could not possibly write the number down in full in the ordinary denary
notation: it would be 1 followed by 10 to the Power of 123 successive “0”s!
Even if we were to write a “0” on each separate proton and on each separate
neutron in the entire universe -and we could throw in all the other particles
as well for good measure-we should fall far short of writing down the figure
needed”. (Roger Penrose, The Emperor’s
New Mind, Oxford University Press, New York, 1989, p. 344)
“According to this pattern of evolution, the brain is an object made of
cells, electrical circuits, and reaction mechanisms (...). This could happen
perfectly without an inner self, it would suffice the existence the inert
consciousness but not so. That is, the brain should be a machine chemical to
react very efficiently to the world, but should not be a self, lived awareness
spare, is a gratuity. A blemish on the perfect material explanation of the
world”. (Luis Arbaiza, “The biochemistry can’t explain consciousness”, luisarbaizaescalante.blogspot.com, July 4, 2007)
“The unification of Kaluza-Klein was merely a mathematical trick to put
the Maxwell and Einstein’s equations in one five-dimensional mathematical
matrix, but did not integrate these equations in a real and physically
meaningful manner”. (Hans Ohanian, Einstein’s Mistakes, W.W.
Norton Press, 2008, p. 304)
To be continued…
