The whole Kalam argument is nothing more than a Composition fallacy: when you assume that something that is true of a part of something must be true of the whole because it is true of that part. In this case, things within the universe have temporal causes therefore the universe as a whole must also have a temporal cause, but this is not necessarily true. Everything in existence may have existed in a super dense Mass before it "exploded" (spread) into everything that is.
But what caused that Mass to explode and how did that matter come to exist in the first place? Well, instead of asking centuries dead Christian philosophers who were copying the work of millennia old dead Greek philosophers, we could ask modern cosmologists, and when we do, we find that an application of the laws of physics as we currently understand them is all that is needed to get the universe going.
But what caused that Mass to explode and how did that matter come to exist in the first place? Well, instead of asking centuries dead Christian philosophers who were copying the work of millennia old dead Greek philosophers, we could ask modern cosmologists, and when we do, we find that an application of the laws of physics as we currently understand them is all that is needed to get the universe going.
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"
