RE: Questions on the Kalam Cosmological argument
July 19, 2013 at 5:12 am
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2013 at 5:20 am by Cyberman.)
You've pretty much nailed it. Kalam is nothing more than a redrafting of the original cosmological argument intended to define the conclusion into existence. After that Craig just waltzes off down the yellow brick road with a bizarre list of total non sequiturs.
The original argument ran something like this:
1 Everything that exists has a cause
2 The Universe exists
3 Therefore the Universe had a cause
4 Therefore God exists
"But," says Man, "that's a dead giveaway, isn't it? You've just made God subject to premise 1, so by your own argument God must have had a cause. QED."
"Oh dear," says WLC, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly nips off to crap out this monstrous turd of spurious logic so as to get his God off the hook and fool the gullible.
However, even if we were to grant everything in Craig's argument as perfectly valid, God still has to be stapled to the end of it, because without that punchline it can be made to 'prove' Zeus, Quetzecoatl and Ceiling Cat just as much as it does Yahweh.
The original argument ran something like this:
1 Everything that exists has a cause
2 The Universe exists
3 Therefore the Universe had a cause
4 Therefore God exists
"But," says Man, "that's a dead giveaway, isn't it? You've just made God subject to premise 1, so by your own argument God must have had a cause. QED."
"Oh dear," says WLC, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly nips off to crap out this monstrous turd of spurious logic so as to get his God off the hook and fool the gullible.
However, even if we were to grant everything in Craig's argument as perfectly valid, God still has to be stapled to the end of it, because without that punchline it can be made to 'prove' Zeus, Quetzecoatl and Ceiling Cat just as much as it does Yahweh.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
