The Cosmological Argument and Free Will
September 2, 2014 at 7:51 am
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2014 at 8:17 am by Mudhammam.)
One of the most commonly used arguments for establishing the existence of God, as many of you know, states:
1. Anything that has a beginning has a cause.
2. The Universe had a beginning.
3. The Universe had a cause.
A glaring peculiarity stands out, however, when philosophers such as William Lane Craig peddle this line of reasoning in one breath and yet affirm the existence of indeterminate free will in another.
Are human actions free or determined? Many will reply 'free,' which is to basically proclaim that some events do indeed have a beginning and lack a cause. Well then, on what leg does the Cosmological argument stand? Which is it?
Does anyone else find an inconsistency here or am I missing something?
Is this the point in which the soul is injected as the Unmoved Mover? Does this still not require indeterminate, spontaneous generation of action, and if not, what causal relation does "soul" have to said action?
If we simply say, "It's a mystery," then what good is intellectualism? The furthest it can possibly attain amounts to far greater fuzziness than that of perceptual reality which it so fervently claims to disdain?
1. Anything that has a beginning has a cause.
2. The Universe had a beginning.
3. The Universe had a cause.
A glaring peculiarity stands out, however, when philosophers such as William Lane Craig peddle this line of reasoning in one breath and yet affirm the existence of indeterminate free will in another.
Are human actions free or determined? Many will reply 'free,' which is to basically proclaim that some events do indeed have a beginning and lack a cause. Well then, on what leg does the Cosmological argument stand? Which is it?
Does anyone else find an inconsistency here or am I missing something?
Is this the point in which the soul is injected as the Unmoved Mover? Does this still not require indeterminate, spontaneous generation of action, and if not, what causal relation does "soul" have to said action?
If we simply say, "It's a mystery," then what good is intellectualism? The furthest it can possibly attain amounts to far greater fuzziness than that of perceptual reality which it so fervently claims to disdain?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
