Dr. Craig is a liar.

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Of course I mean causally prior. That was the sentence I highlighted in your post. Regarding causation, we would have to distinguish between efficient and material causation. For material causation, the cause would have to precede its effect. For efficient causation, the cause can simultaneous with its effect.

Why only simultaneous?  Why not after?  If you're doing away with the rules, why make up arbitrary replacements.  

If nothing exists necessarily, everything exists contingently. Contingent things have an explanation for their existence.

Then why do gods exist?

Why is there something rather than nothing?

Why is there god rather than nothing?

To say "I don't know" to that question and then tell a theist that the idea of God is ridiculous is, at best, inconsistent.

I don't agree.  

I can certainly say that I don't know something that I actually don't know.  There's nothing ridiculous about that. 

And all the gods I'm familiar with have ridiculousness built in.  Take a necessary god, for example, that's ridiculous.  

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