RE: The Kalam Cosmological argument.
January 6, 2024 at 7:01 am
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2024 at 7:03 am by Fake Messiah.)
(January 6, 2024 at 4:23 am)JJoseph Wrote: E.g. Houses, Trees, Planets etc begin to exist and have a cause. So does the Universe, which brings us to Step 2.
Trees and planets had a natural cause, so why wouldn't the universe have a natural cause?
The second thing is that the Universe always existed (the big bang is "only" the expansion of the universe), which, again, had a natural cause since there is no evidence to show otherwise.
And then of course the special pleading in the Kalam that it ignores to ask what caused god.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"