J. Howard Sobel on the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 36 (4):565-84 (2006)
| Abstract | J. Howard Sobel devotes seventy pages of his wide-ranging analysis of theistic arguments to a critique of the cosmological argument. Although the focus of that critique falls on the Leibnizian argument, he also offers in passing some criticisms of the kalam cosmological argument. Sobel does not challenge the causal premiss insofar as "begins to exist" means "has a first time of its existence." Rather he disputes the arguments and evidence for the fact of the universe's beginning. I show that Sobel's rebuttals of the philosophical arguments against the infinitude of the past are in various ways misconceived or fallacious and that his response to the empirical evidence for the beginning of the universe involves a gratuitous and radical revision of contemporary astrophysical cosmogony. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Kalam Howard Sobel Cosmological Argument William Lane Craig Logic and Theism Causal Principle cosmology | |||||||||
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