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As technology allows a better view of the universe, R. C. Sproul asks an important question: Can chance be responsible for all that is? In a lively dialogue with modern thinkers from Einstein and Hume to Niels Bohr and Carl Sagan, Not a Chance consults the laws of logic, linguistic and scientific theory, and mathematical understanding to probe the cause-effect relationship. It is the only...

To argue that something comes from nothing requires the denial of the law of noncontradiction. The law states simply that A cannot be A and non-A (-A) at the same time and in the same relationship. Something can be A and B at the same time but not in the same relationship. I can be a father (A) and a son (B) at the same time, but not in the same relationship. For something to come from nothing it must, in effect, create itself. Self-creation is a logical and rational impossibility. For something
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