@Maj:
Kalam cannot get you any closer to your or any god than "the Universe must have had a cause", even if we grant an extremely generous tract of leeway to the assumptions in the premises. Everything else you need to tip you over that final edge has to be nailed on to the end without any justification whatsoever.
In fine, Kalam isn't merely a horse that can't run - it's a horse that's practically begging to be put out of its misery.
Kalam cannot get you any closer to your or any god than "the Universe must have had a cause", even if we grant an extremely generous tract of leeway to the assumptions in the premises. Everything else you need to tip you over that final edge has to be nailed on to the end without any justification whatsoever.
In fine, Kalam isn't merely a horse that can't run - it's a horse that's practically begging to be put out of its misery.
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.'
