RE: The Kalam Cosmological Argument
August 3, 2024 at 4:27 am
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2024 at 4:27 am by Sheldon.)
(August 2, 2024 at 6:56 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(August 2, 2024 at 6:39 pm)Sheldon Wrote: If everything must have a cause, then any deity must axiomatically have a cause.
If one claims a deity can transcend time and space, then one cannot rationally claim nothing else can.
You have to watch out with this...
None of the First Cause arguments argues that everything must have a cause. This is true of the Kalam one as well.
I missed out begins to exist, which of course is still not objectively demonstrated, since it is only true of things we have understood within the physical temporal universe, and in every single case they are natural causes, despite this Lane Craig's version then posits an unevidenced deity using supernatural magic, not only does this not follow from the first premise, it has no explanatory powers whatsoever. It also violates Occam's razor, involves question begging and what looks suspiciously like a special pleading fallacy.