(February 15, 2015 at 6:31 pm)robvalue Wrote: But I mean really, all this Kalam stuff is utterly crud. Even if you allow the whole thing, it gets you nowhere towards the obviously intended conclusion. It barely limps over the first hurdle, leaving three other much more difficult hurdles.
Exactly. Kalam boils down to "created things are created." Groundbreaking.
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.'