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Dr. Chad Engelland

About

Chad Engelland, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas, where he regularly teaches Philosophy of Being, and he is the author of The Way of Philosophy: An Introduction (Cascade Books, 2016).

   
 

The Ultimate Jeopardy Question

“Why is there something rather than nothing?” In The Grand Design (2010), Stephen Hawking made headlines by denying the need for God to get matter to jump into being; the law of gravity was enough to do it. Then, Lawrence Krauss created a Youtube sensation and book called, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing (2012), that made the same case, including an afterward by Richard Dawkins who heralded it as a death blow to the last proof for the existence of God. Jim... Read More