Did a strawman say something?

Now is the time: hear what Nostradamus says about things that *MUST* happen:

http://nostradamuscode.com/Cesar_Preface.htm

http://www.crystalinks.com/nostradamus2.html

“For God’s mercy will be poured forth only for a certain time, my son, until the majority of my prophecies are fulfilled and this fulfillment is complete. Then several times in the course of the sinister tempests the Lord shall say: Therefore I shall crush and destroy and show no mercy; and many other circumstances shall result from floods and continual rain of which I have written more fully in my other prophecies, composed at some length, not in a chronological sequence, in prose, limiting the places and times and EXACT DATES so that future generations will see, while experiencing these inevitable events, how I have listed others in clearer language, so that despite their obscurities these things shall be understood: When the time comes for the removal of ignorance, the matter will be clearer still.”

And now for some preliminaries:

THE ARGUMENT FROM FIRST CAUSE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ICpvT_UIc

From “Why I Am Not A Christian”
by Bertrand Russell, 1927.

“Perhaps the simplest and easiest to understand is the argument of the First Cause. (It is maintained that everything we see in this world has a cause, and as you go back in the chain of causes further and further you must come to a First Cause, and to that First Cause you give the name of God.) That argument, I suppose, does not carry very much weight nowadays, because, in the first place, cause is not quite what it used to be. The philosophers and the men of science have got going on cause, and it has not anything like the vitality it used to have; but, apart from that, you can see that the argument that there must be a First Cause is one that cannot have any validity. I may say that when I was a young man and was debating these questions very seriously in my mind, I for a long time accepted the argument of the First Cause, until one day, at the age of eighteen, I read John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography, and I there found this sentence: “My father taught me that the question ‘Who made me?’ cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question `Who made god?'” That very simple sentence showed me, as I still think, the fallacy in the argument of the First Cause. If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument. It is exactly of the same nature as the Hindu’s view, that the world rested upon an elephant and the elephant rested upon a tortoise; and when they said, “How about the tortoise?” the Indian said, “Suppose we change the subject.” The argument is really no better than that. There is no reason why the world could not have come into being without a cause; nor, on the other hand, is there any reason why it should not have always existed. There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. Therefore, perhaps, I need not waste any more time upon the argument about the First Cause. ”

Probably the best they got, and he is not convincing. He just decides to duck the question by not wasting any more “time” on it. Unlike the gang of New Atheists we present here who keep asking the same useless questions over and over again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQX4mKvqSoo

He just seems to be missing one possible cause – GOD?

AND THIS MONSTER IS NOT CONVINCING AT ALL!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i84cZKBJELY

Well SPEAK N DIE got it wrong. Apparently only “scientists” know how the universe operates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM8FcN0aAvU